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Severity: Normal
Title: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 17, 2010
Bugs: #325451, #326717, #330003, #333559, #335750, #338204,
#341797, #344201, #347625, #348651
ID: 201012-01

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium, some of which
may allow user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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Chromium is an open-source web browser project.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-client/chromium < 8.0.552.224 >= 8.0.552.224

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Chromium. For further
information please consult the release notes referenced below.

Impact
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A remote attacker could trick a user to perform a set of UI actions
that trigger a possibly exploitable crash, leading to execution of
arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

It was also possible for an attacker to entice a user to visit a
specially-crafted web page that would trigger one of the
vulnerabilities, leading to execution of arbitrary code within the
confines of the sandbox, successful Cross-Site Scripting attacks,
violation of the same-origin policy, successful website spoofing
attacks, information leak, or a Denial of Service. An attacker could
also trick a user to perform a set of UI actions that might result in a
successful website spoofing attack.

Multiple bugs in the sandbox could result in a sandbox escape.

Multiple UI bugs could lead to information leak and successful website
spoofing attacks.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/chromium-8.0.552.224"

References
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[ 1 ] Release Notes 5.0.375.86

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update_24.html
[ 2 ] Release Notes 5.0.375.99

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/07/stable-channel-update.html
[ 3 ] Release Notes 5.0.375.125

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/07/stable-channel-update_26.html
[ 4 ] Release Notes 5.0.375.127

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/08/stable-channel-update_19.html
[ 5 ] Release Notes 6.0.472.59

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/09/stable-beta-channel-updates_14.html
[ 6 ] Release Notes 6.0.472.62

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/09/stable-beta-channel-updates_17.html
[ 7 ] Release Notes 7.0.517.41

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/10/stable-channel-update.html
[ 8 ] Release Notes 7.0.517.44

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html
[ 9 ] Release Notes 8.0.552.215

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html
[ 10 ] Release Notes 8.0.552.224

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5