Issued:
2019-05-16
Updated:
2019-05-16

RHSA-2019:1243 - Important: chromium-browser security update

Synopsis

Important: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

This update upgrades Chromium to version 74.0.3729.131.

Security Fix(es):

  • chromium-browser: out-of-bounds access in SQLite (CVE-2019-5827)

  • chromium-browser: parameter passing error in media player leading to unauthorized access (CVE-2019-5824)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • chromium-browser-74.0.3729.131-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-74.0.3729.131-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • chromium-browser-74.0.3729.131-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-74.0.3729.131-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information