ArchLinux: 202005-2: chromium: arbitrary code execution
Summary
- CVE-2020-6464 (arbitrary code execution)
A type confusion issue has been found in the Blink component of the
chromium browser before 81.0.4044.138.
- CVE-2020-6831 (arbitrary code execution)
A buffer overflow could occur when parsing and validating SCTP chunks
in WebRTC, in Firefox before 76.0 and chromium before 81.0.4044.138.
This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable
crash.
Resolution
Upgrade to 81.0.4044.138-1.
# pacman -Syu "chromium>=81.0.4044.138-1"
The problems have been fixed upstream in version 81.0.4044.138.
References
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632241 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-16/#CVE-2020-6831 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-6464 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-6831
Workaround
None.