Bug 1651487 (CVE-2018-17479)

Summary: CVE-2018-17479 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in GPU
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akarshan.biswas, erack, tcallawa, yaneti
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Bug Depends On: 1651488, 1651489, 1651490    
Bug Blocks: 1651491    

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-11-20 08:24:40 UTC
An use-after-free flaw was found in the GPU component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=905336

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-11-20 08:25:20 UTC
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1651490]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1651489]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-26 08:34:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:3648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3648