Bug 1380631 (CVE-2016-5177)

Summary: CVE-2016-5177 chromium-browser: use after free 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: nb, tcallawa, tpopela, yaneti
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Fixed In Version: Chrome 53.0.2785.143 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1380634, 1380635, 1380636    
Bug Blocks: 1380633    

Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-30 08:28:42 UTC
A use after free flaw was found in the V8 component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=642496

External References:

https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-09-30 08:30:24 UTC
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1380634]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-10-05 13:02:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2016:2007 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2007.html