GLSA 201012-01: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/17/2010
Bugs:	#325451, #326717, #330003, #333559, #335750, #338204, #341797, #344201, #347625, #348651
ID:	201012-01

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium, some of which may allow user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Chromium is an open-source web browser project.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-client/chromium	< 8.0.552.224	>= 8.0.552.224	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Chromium. For further information please consult the release notes referenced below.

Impact

A remote attacker could trick a user to perform a set of UI actions that trigger a possibly exploitable crash, leading to execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

It was also possible for an attacker to entice a user to visit a specially-crafted web page that would trigger one of the vulnerabilities, leading to execution of arbitrary code within the confines of the sandbox, successful Cross-Site Scripting attacks, violation of the same-origin policy, successful website spoofing attacks, information leak, or a Denial of Service. An attacker could also trick a user to perform a set of UI actions that might result in a successful website spoofing attack.

Multiple bugs in the sandbox could result in a sandbox escape.

Multiple UI bugs could lead to information leak and successful website spoofing attacks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/chromium-8.0.552.224"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.