RHSA-2016:1905HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

Published
September 16, 2016
Last Modified
November 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (8)

CVE-2016-5173 →CVE-2016-5174 →CVE-2016-5175 →CVE-2016-5176 →CVE-2016-7549 →CVE-2016-5170 →CVE-2016-5171 →CVE-2016-5172 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-5170 — chromium-browser: use after free in blink CVE-2016-5171 — chromium-browser: use after free in blink CVE-2016-5172 — chromium-browser: arbitrary memory read in v8 CVE-2016-5173 — chromium-browser: extension resource access CVE-2016-5174 — chromium-browser: popup not correctly suppressed CVE-2016-5175 — chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits CVE-2016-5176 — chromium-browser: SafeBrowsing protection mechanism bypass CVE-2016-7549 — chromium-browser: DoS via invalid recipient of IPC message

🎯 Affected products15

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

🔗 References (10)