Bug 1291989 (CVE-2015-6792) - CVE-2015-6792 chromium-browser: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing
Summary: CVE-2015-6792 chromium-browser: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-6792
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1291990 1291991
Blocks: 1291993
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-16 07:00 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-17 16:49:05 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2665 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: chromium-browser security update 2015-12-17 21:15:32 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-16 07:00:21 UTC 
As per chromium upstream security advisory:

The stable channel has been updated to 47.0.2526.106 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This update includes 2 security fixes as part of our ongoing internal security work:

[569486] CVE-2015-6792: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing.

Upstream bug:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=569486

External References:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_15.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-17 16:15:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:2665 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2665.html
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-30 08:30:25 UTC 
As per: 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6792

This issue is now being called:

"UAF in MidiHost (Sandbox escape)"

Along with this CVE-2015-8664 was also addressed in 47.0.2526.106
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