[ GLSA 201210-07 ] Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201210-07)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: October 21, 2012
Bug(s): #433551, #436234, #437664, #437984
ID: 201210-07

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium, some of
which may allow execution of arbitrary code.


Background

Chromium is an open source web browser project.

Affected Packages

Package: www-client/chromium
Vulnerable: < 22.0.1229.94
Unaffected: >= 22.0.1229.94
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review
the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details.


Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web
site using Chromium, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of the process, arbitrary file write, a Denial
of Service condition, Cross-Site Scripting in SSL interstitial and
various Universal Cross-Site Scripting attacks.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: