SB2018010801 - Gentoo update for Chromium, Google Chrome
Published: January 8, 2018 Updated: July 1, 2021
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 20 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15407)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds write in QUIC. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
2) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15408)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to heap-based buffer overflow in PDFium. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
3) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15409)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds write in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
4) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15410)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in PDFium. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
5) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15411)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in PDFium. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
6) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15412)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in libXML. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
7) Type confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15413)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to type confusion in WebAssembly. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
8) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15415)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.The weakness exists due to pointer information disclosure in IPC call. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
9) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15416)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read in Blink. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
10) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15417)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.The weakness exists due to cross origin information disclosure in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
11) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15418)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.The weakness exists due to use of uninitialized value in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
12) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15419)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.The weakness exists due to cross origin leak of redirect URL in Blink. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
13) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15420)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
14) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15422)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to integer overflow in ICU. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
15) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15423)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.The weakness exists due to an issue with SPAKE implementation in BoringSSL. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and bypass security restrictions.
16) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15424)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
17) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15425)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
18) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15426)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
19) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15427)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient blocking of JavaScript in Omnibox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and bypass security restrictions.
20) Universal cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15429)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists in V8 due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.