Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  - CVE-2016-1696     A cross-origin bypass was found in the bindings to     extensions.

  - CVE-2016-1697     Mariusz Mlynski discovered a cross-origin bypass in     Blink/Webkit.

  - CVE-2016-1698     Rob Wu discovered an information leak.

  - CVE-2016-1699     Gregory Panakkal discovered an issue in the Developer     Tools feature.

  - CVE-2016-1700     Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in extensions.

  - CVE-2016-1701     Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in the autofill     feature.

  - CVE-2016-1702     cloudfuzzer discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in     the skia library.

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

This update upgrades Chromium to version 51.0.2704.79.

Security Fix(es) :

* Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2016-1696, CVE-2016-1697, CVE-2016-1703, CVE-2016-1698, CVE-2016-1699, CVE-2016-1700, CVE-2016-1701, CVE-2016-1702)

Chromium was updated to 51.0.2704.79 to fix the following vulnerabilities :

  - CVE-2016-1696: Cross-origin bypass in Extension bindings

  - CVE-2016-1697: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

  - CVE-2016-1698: Information leak in Extension bindings

  - CVE-2016-1699: Parameter sanitization failure in     DevTools

  - CVE-2016-1700: Use-after-free in Extensions

  - CVE-2016-1701: Use-after-free in Autofill

  - CVE-2016-1702: Out-of-bounds read in Skia

  - CVE-2016-1703: Various fixes from internal audits,     fuzzing and other initiatives Also includes     vulnerabilities fixed in 51.0.2704.63 (boo#981886) :

  - CVE-2016-1672: Cross-origin bypass in extension bindings

  - CVE-2016-1673: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

  - CVE-2016-1674: Cross-origin bypass in extensions

  - CVE-2016-1675: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

  - CVE-2016-1676: Cross-origin bypass in extension bindings

  - CVE-2016-1677: Type confusion in V8

  - CVE-2016-1678: Heap overflow in V8

  - CVE-2016-1679: Heap use-after-free in V8 bindings

  - CVE-2016-1680: Heap use-after-free in Skia

  - CVE-2016-1681: Heap overflow in PDFium

  - CVE-2016-1682: CSP bypass for ServiceWorker

  - CVE-2016-1683: Out-of-bounds access in libxslt

  - CVE-2016-1684: Integer overflow in libxslt

  - CVE-2016-1685: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium

  - CVE-2016-1686: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium

  - CVE-2016-1687: Information leak in extensions

  - CVE-2016-1688: Out-of-bounds read in V8

  - CVE-2016-1689: Heap buffer overflow in media

  - CVE-2016-1690: Heap use-after-free in Autofill

  - CVE-2016-1691: Heap buffer-overflow in Skia

  - CVE-2016-1692: Limited cross-origin bypass in     ServiceWorker

  - CVE-2016-1693: HTTP Download of Software Removal Tool

  - CVE-2016-1694: HPKP pins removed on cache clearance

  - CVE-2016-1695: Various fixes from internal audits,     fuzzing and other initiatives

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 51.0.2704.79. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A cross-origin bypass issue exists in Extension     bindings. No other details are available.
    (CVE-2016-1696)

  - A cross-origin bypass issue exists in Blink. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1697)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in     Extension bindings. No other details are available.
    (CVE-2016-1698)

  - A flaw exists in DevTools due to a failure to sanitize     a parameter. No other details are available.
    (CVE-2016-1699)

  - A use-after-free error exists in Extensions. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1700)

  - A use-after-free error exists in Autofill. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1701)

  - An out-of-bounds read error exists in Skia. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1702)

  - Multiple unspecified issues exists that were found     by internal auditing, fuzzing, etc. No other details     are available. (CVE-2016-1703)

Google Chrome Releases reports :

15 security fixes in this release, including :

- 601073] High CVE-2016-1696: Cross-origin bypass in Extension bindings. Credit to anonymous.

- [613266] High CVE-2016-1697: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.

- [603725] Medium CVE-2016-1698: Information leak in Extension bindings. Credit to Rob Wu.

- [607939] Medium CVE-2016-1699: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools. Credit to Gregory Panakkal.

- [608104] Medium CVE-2016-1700: Use-after-free in Extensions. Credit to Rob Wu.

- [608101] Medium CVE-2016-1701: Use-after-free in Autofill. Credit to Rob Wu.

- [609260] Medium CVE-2016-1702: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

- [616539] CVE-2016-1703: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 51.0.2704.79. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A cross-origin bypass issue exists in Extension     bindings. No other details are available.
    (CVE-2016-1696)

  - A cross-origin bypass issue exists in Blink. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1697)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in     Extension bindings. No other details are available.
    (CVE-2016-1698)

  - A flaw exists in DevTools due to a failure to sanitize     a parameter. No other details are available.
    (CVE-2016-1699)

  - A use-after-free error exists in Extensions. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1700)

  - A use-after-free error exists in Autofill. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1701)

  - An out-of-bounds read error exists in Skia. No other     details are available. (CVE-2016-1702)

  - Multiple unspecified issues exists that were found     by internal auditing, fuzzing, etc. No other details     are available. (CVE-2016-1703)

Chromium was updated to 51.0.2704.79 to fix a number of security issues. [boo#982719]

  - CVE-2016-1696: Cross-origin bypass in Extension bindings

  - CVE-2016-1697: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

  - CVE-2016-1698: Information leak in Extension bindings

  - CVE-2016-1699: Parameter sanitization failure in     DevTools

  - CVE-2016-1700: Use-after-free in Extensions

  - CVE-2016-1701: Use-after-free in Autofill

  - CVE-2016-1702: Out-of-bounds read in Skia

  - CVE-2016-1703: Various fixes from internal audits,     fuzzing and other initiatives

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is prior to 51.0.2704.79, and is affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

 - A cross-origin bypass issue exists in Extension bindings.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1696)
 - A cross-origin bypass issue exists in Blink.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1697)
 - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Extension bindings.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1698)
 - A flaw exists in DevTools due to a failure to sanitize a parameter.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1699)
 - A use-after-free error exists in Extensions.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1700)
 - A use-after-free error exists in Autofill.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1701)
 - An out-of-bounds read error exists in Skia.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1702)
 - Multiple unspecified issues exists that were found by internal auditing, fuzzing, etc.  No other details are available. (CVE-2016-1703)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
91473	Debian DSA-3594-1 : chromium-browser - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/6/2016	1/11/2021	high
91449	RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2016:1201)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2016	5/29/2020	high
91485	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2016-682)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/6/2016	1/19/2021	high
91456	Google Chrome < 51.0.2704.79 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	6/3/2016	11/19/2019	high
91491	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (c039a761-2c29-11e6-8912-3065ec8fd3ec)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	6/7/2016	1/4/2021	high
91455	Google Chrome < 51.0.2704.79 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	6/3/2016	4/11/2022	high
91492	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2016-1489)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/7/2016	1/19/2021	high
9373	Google Chrome < 51.0.2704.79 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	6/16/2016	3/6/2019	high

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