GLSA 201403-01: Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity:	normal
Title:	Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	03/05/2014
Bugs:	#486742, #488148, #491128, #491326, #493364, #498168, #499502, #501948, #503372
ID:	201403-01

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, worst 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	< 33.0.1750.146	>= 33.0.1750.146	All supported architectures
dev-lang/v8	< 3.20.17.13		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. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to bypass security restrictions or have other unspecified impact.

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-33.0.1750.146"
    

Gentoo has discontinued support for separate V8 package. We recommend that users unmerge V8:

# emerge --unmerge "dev-lang/v8"

References

• CVE-2013-2906
• CVE-2013-2907
• CVE-2013-2908
• CVE-2013-2909
• CVE-2013-2910
• CVE-2013-2911
• CVE-2013-2912
• CVE-2013-2913
• CVE-2013-2915
• CVE-2013-2916
• CVE-2013-2917
• CVE-2013-2918
• CVE-2013-2919
• CVE-2013-2920
• CVE-2013-2921
• CVE-2013-2922
• CVE-2013-2923
• CVE-2013-2925
• CVE-2013-2926
• CVE-2013-2927
• CVE-2013-2928
• CVE-2013-2931
• CVE-2013-6621
• CVE-2013-6622
• CVE-2013-6623
• CVE-2013-6624
• CVE-2013-6625
• CVE-2013-6626
• CVE-2013-6627
• CVE-2013-6628
• CVE-2013-6632
• CVE-2013-6634
• CVE-2013-6635
• CVE-2013-6636
• CVE-2013-6637
• CVE-2013-6638
• CVE-2013-6639
• CVE-2013-6640
• CVE-2013-6641
• CVE-2013-6643
• CVE-2013-6644
• CVE-2013-6645
• CVE-2013-6646
• CVE-2013-6649
• CVE-2013-6650
• CVE-2013-6652
• CVE-2013-6653
• CVE-2013-6654
• CVE-2013-6655
• CVE-2013-6656
• CVE-2013-6657
• CVE-2013-6658
• CVE-2013-6659
• CVE-2013-6660
• CVE-2013-6661
• CVE-2013-6663
• CVE-2013-6664
• CVE-2013-6665
• CVE-2013-6666
• CVE-2013-6667
• CVE-2013-6668
• CVE-2013-6802
• CVE-2014-1681

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201403-01.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.

License

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