Bug 1165660 – CVE-2014-7909 chromium-browser: Uninitialized memory read in Skia

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Bug 1165660 - (CVE-2014-7909) CVE-2014-7909 chromium-browser: Uninitialized memory read in Skia

Summary:	CVE-2014-7909 chromium-browser: Uninitialized memory read in Skia

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-7909

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1165942 1165943
Blocks:	1165665 1167618
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Reported:	2014-11-19 08:00 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2015-11-25 05:20 EST (History)
CC List:	13 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	Chrome 39.0.2171.65
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-09-04 02:36:37 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:1894	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: chromium-browser security update	2014-11-24 20:56:55 EST

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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-11-19 08:00:00 EST

Unspecified vulnerability was found [1] in Skia (2D rendering engine used in Chromium) which leads to uninitialized memory read.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=391001

External References:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/11/stable-channel-update_18.html

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-11-20 00:41:32 EST

Upstream patch:

https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/1c577cd3ee331944b9061ee0eec147b211ee563c

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-11-24 15:57:31 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1894 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1894.html

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-09-04 02:36:37 EDT

Analysis:

On further investigation, it was found that this issue does not affect librsvg2. It only affects the skia library.

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of librsvg2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

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