Issued:
2019-12-16
Updated:
2019-12-16

RHSA-2019:4238 - Critical: chromium-browser security update

Synopsis

Critical: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

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 Critical. 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 79.0.3945.79.

Security Fix(es):

  • chromium-browser: Use after free in Bluetooth (CVE-2019-13725)

  • chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in password manager (CVE-2019-13726)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in WebSockets (CVE-2019-13727)

  • chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in V8 (CVE-2019-13728)

  • chromium-browser: Use after free in WebSockets (CVE-2019-13729)

  • chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8 (CVE-2019-13730)

  • chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio (CVE-2019-13732)

  • chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in SQLite (CVE-2019-13734)

  • chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in V8 (CVE-2019-13735)

  • chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8 (CVE-2019-13764)

  • chromium-browser: Integer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2019-13736)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in autocomplete (CVE-2019-13737)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in navigation (CVE-2019-13738)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox (CVE-2019-13739)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in sharing (CVE-2019-13740)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink (CVE-2019-13741)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox (CVE-2019-13742)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in external protocol handling (CVE-2019-13743)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in cookies (CVE-2019-13744)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in audio (CVE-2019-13745)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Omnibox (CVE-2019-13746)

  • chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in rendering (CVE-2019-13747)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools (CVE-2019-13748)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox (CVE-2019-13749)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in SQLite (CVE-2019-13750)

  • chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in SQLite (CVE-2019-13751)

  • chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in SQLite (CVE-2019-13752)

  • chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in SQLite (CVE-2019-13753)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2019-13754)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2019-13755)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in printing (CVE-2019-13756)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox (CVE-2019-13757)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in navigation (CVE-2019-13758)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in interstitials (CVE-2019-13759)

  • chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox (CVE-2019-13761)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in downloads (CVE-2019-13762)

  • chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in payments (CVE-2019-13763)

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-debuginfo-79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • chromium-browser-79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • chromium-browser-79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information