Bug 1640102 (CVE-2018-17466)

Summary:	CVE-2018-17466 chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akarshan.biswas, cschalle, dmoppert, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, mhroncok, stransky, tcallawa, tpopela, yaneti
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	chromium-browser 70.0.3538.67	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2018-10-25 20:59:06 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1640120, 1640121, 1640122, 1655360, 1655361, 1655362, 1660726, 1660727, 1660728, 1661346, 1667787
Bug Blocks:	1640116, 1655358, 1660724

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-10-17 11:24:27 UTC

A memory corruption flaw was found in the Angle component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=880906

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-10-17 11:36:59 UTC

Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1640122]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1640121]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-24 22:08:27 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:3004 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3004

Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2018-12-12 03:01:43 UTC

This flaw also affected Firefox 60.3 ESR:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-30/#CVE-2018-17466

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-12-17 17:06:31 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:3831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3831

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-12-17 17:06:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3833 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3833

Comment 8 Doran Moppert 2019-01-21 04:54:11 UTC

Statement:

In general, this flaw be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-01-24 22:38:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2019:0159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0159

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-01-24 22:42:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:0160 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0160