RHSA-2016:2718HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

Published
November 14, 2016
Last Modified
November 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

📋 Description

CVE-2016-5199 — chromium-browser: heap corruption in ffmpeg CVE-2016-5200 — chromium-browser: out of bounds memory access in v8 CVE-2016-5201 — chromium-browser: info leak in extensions CVE-2016-5202 — chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

🎯 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-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:54.0.2840.100-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:54.0.2840.100-1.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 (8)