Bug 1291989 (CVE-2015-6792)

Summary:	CVE-2015-6792 chromium-browser: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	tpopela
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1291990, 1291991
Bug Blocks:	1291993

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-16 07:00:21 UTC

As per chromium upstream security advisory:

The stable channel has been updated to 47.0.2526.106 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This update includes 2 security fixes as part of our ongoing internal security work:

[569486] CVE-2015-6792: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing.

Upstream bug:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=569486

External References:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_15.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-17 16:15:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:2665 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2665.html

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-30 08:30:25 UTC

As per: 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6792

This issue is now being called:

"UAF in MidiHost (Sandbox escape)"

Along with this CVE-2015-8664 was also addressed in 47.0.2526.106