MGASA-2024-0196 - Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 27 May 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0196.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2024-5274

The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to the
125.0.6422.112 release. It includes 1 security fix.
* High CVE-2024-5274: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Clément Lecigne
of Google's Threat Analysis Group and Brendon Tiszka of Chrome Security
on 2024-05-20
Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-5274 exists in the wild.
Please, do note, that since some versions ago, only x86_64 is supported.
i586 support for linux was stopped some years ago and the community is
not able to provide patches anymore for the latest Chromium code.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33240
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-5274

SRPMS:
- 9/tainted/chromium-browser-stable-125.0.6422.112-1.mga9.tainted

Mageia 2024-0196: chromium-browser-stable Security Advisory Updates

The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to the 125.0.6422.112 release

Summary

The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to the 125.0.6422.112 release. It includes 1 security fix. * High CVE-2024-5274: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group and Brendon Tiszka of Chrome Security on 2024-05-20 Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-5274 exists in the wild. Please, do note, that since some versions ago, only x86_64 is supported. i586 support for linux was stopped some years ago and the community is not able to provide patches anymore for the latest Chromium code.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33240

- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-5274

Resolution

MGASA-2024-0196 - Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 9/tainted/chromium-browser-stable-125.0.6422.112-1.mga9.tainted

Severity
Publication date: 27 May 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0196.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-5274

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