GLSA 201201-03: Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	01/08/2012
Bugs:	#394587, #397907
ID:	201201-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Chromium is an open source web browser project. V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-client/chromium	< 16.0.912.75	>= 16.0.912.75	All supported architectures
dev-lang/v8	< 3.6.6.11	>= 3.6.6.11	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and V8. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site or JavaScript program using Chromium or V8, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition.

The attacker could also perform URL bar spoofing.

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-16.0.912.75"

All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.6.6.11"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-03.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.