CVE-2016-5208

Multiple flaws were found in the way Chromium 54 processes various types of web content, where loading a web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5203, CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5206, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5210, CVE-2016-5211, CVE-2016-5212, CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5214, CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5216, CVE-2016-5217, CVE-2016-5218, CVE-2016-5219, CVE-2016-5220, CVE-2016-5221, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5223, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5226, CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9651, CVE-2016-9652)

This update to Chromium 55.0.2883.75 fixes the following vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2016-9651: Private property access in V8
• CVE-2016-5208: Universal XSS in Blink
• CVE-2016-5207: Universal XSS in Blink
• CVE-2016-5206: Same-origin bypass in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5205: Universal XSS in Blink
• CVE-2016-5204: Universal XSS in Blink
• CVE-2016-5209: Out of bounds write in Blink
• CVE-2016-5203: Use after free in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5210: Out of bounds write in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5212: Local file disclosure in DevTools
• CVE-2016-5211: Use after free in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5213: Use after free in V8
• CVE-2016-5214: File download protection bypass
• CVE-2016-5216: Use after free in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5215: Use after free in Webaudio
• CVE-2016-5217: Use of unvalidated data in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5218: Address spoofing in Omnibox
• CVE-2016-5219: Use after free in V8
• CVE-2016-5221: Integer overflow in ANGLE
• CVE-2016-5220: Local file access in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5222: Address spoofing in Omnibox
• CVE-2016-9650: CSP Referrer disclosure
• CVE-2016-5223: Integer overflow in PDFium
• CVE-2016-5226: Limited XSS in Blink
• CVE-2016-5225: CSP bypass in Blink
• CVE-2016-5224: Same-origin bypass in SVG
• CVE-2016-9652: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

The default bookmarks override was removed.

The following packaging changes are included:

• Switch to system libraries: harfbuzz, zlib, ffmpeg, where available.
• Chromium now requires harfbuzz >= 1.3.0

These are all security issues fixed in the chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the webview URL, bypass same origin restrictions, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5212, CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5226, CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9652)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5219, CVE-2016-9651)

An integer overflow was discovered in ANGLE. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5221)