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PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:26 pm    Post subject: [ GLSA 201210-07 ] Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities Reply with quote

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201210-07)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: October 21, 2012
Bug(s): #433551, #436234, #437664, #437984
ID: 201210-07

Synopsis

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


Background

Chromium is an open source web browser project.

Affected Packages

Package: www-client/chromium
Vulnerable: < 22.0.1229.94
Unaffected: >= 22.0.1229.94
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

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


Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web
site using Chromium, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of the process, arbitrary file write, a Denial
of Service condition, Cross-Site Scripting in SSL interstitial and
various Universal Cross-Site Scripting attacks.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=www-client/chromium-22.0.1229.94"
   


References

CVE-2012-2859
CVE-2012-2860
CVE-2012-2865
CVE-2012-2866
CVE-2012-2867
CVE-2012-2868
CVE-2012-2869
CVE-2012-2872
CVE-2012-2874
CVE-2012-2876
CVE-2012-2877
CVE-2012-2878
CVE-2012-2879
CVE-2012-2880
CVE-2012-2881
CVE-2012-2882
CVE-2012-2883
CVE-2012-2884
CVE-2012-2885
CVE-2012-2886
CVE-2012-2887
CVE-2012-2888
CVE-2012-2889
CVE-2012-2891
CVE-2012-2892
CVE-2012-2894
CVE-2012-2896
CVE-2012-2900
CVE-2012-5108
CVE-2012-5110
CVE-2012-5111
CVE-2012-5112
CVE-2012-5376

Release Notes 21.0.1180.89


Release Notes 22.0.1229.79


Release Notes 22.0.1229.92


Release Notes 22.0.1229.94
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