RHSA-2020:4974HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

Published
November 9, 2020
Last Modified
November 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

📋 Description

CVE-2020-16004 — chromium-browser: Use after free in user interface CVE-2020-16005 — chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE CVE-2020-16006 — chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8 CVE-2020-16008 — chromium-browser: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC CVE-2020-16009 — chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8

🎯 Affected products18

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6)
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.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 (8)