RHSA-2016:2007HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

Published
October 5, 2016
Last Modified
November 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2016-5177 — chromium-browser: use after free in v8 CVE-2016-5178 — chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

🎯 Affected products10

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:53.0.2785.143-1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

🔗 References (6)