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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5185: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2016:2067)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5185: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2016:2067)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/21/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

Description

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android incorrectly allowed reentrance of FrameView::updateLifecyclePhasesInternal(), which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via crafted HTML pages.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-chromium-browser
  • redhat-upgrade-chromium-browser-debuginfo

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