Bug 1375865 (CVE-2016-5172)

Summary: CVE-2016-5172 chromium-browser: arbitrary memory read in v8
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: tcallawa, tpopela, yaneti
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Fixed In Version: Chrome 53.0.2785.11 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1375871, 1375872, 1375873    
Bug Blocks: 1375869    

Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-14 07:04:01 UTC
An arbitrary memory read flaw was found in the v8 component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=616386

External References:

https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-09-14 07:09:16 UTC
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1375871]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-16 07:28:47 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2016:1905 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-09-16 23:19:45 UTC
chromium-53.0.2785.113-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.