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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2012.0109
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
2 August 2012
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Google Chrome
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction
Unauthorised Access -- Remote with User Interaction
Reduced Security -- Unknown/Unspecified
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2012-2860 CVE-2012-2859 CVE-2012-2858
CVE-2012-2857 CVE-2012-2856 CVE-2012-2855
CVE-2012-2854 CVE-2012-2853 CVE-2012-2852
CVE-2012-2851 CVE-2012-2850 CVE-2012-2849
CVE-2012-2848 CVE-2012-2847 CVE-2012-2846
Member content until: Saturday, September 1 2012
OVERVIEW
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome prior
to version 21.0.1180.57 for Mac and Linux and 21.0.1180.60 for Windows
and Chrome Frame.
IMPACT
The following information is available on the vendor website:
"[Linux only] [125225] Medium CVE-2012-2846: Cross-process interference
in renderers. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes).
[127522] Low CVE-2012-2847: Missing re-prompt to user upon excessive
downloads. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security.
[127525] Medium CVE-2012-2848: Overly broad file access granted after
drag+drop. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security.
[128163] Low CVE-2012-2849: Off-by-one read in GIF decoder. Credit to
Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[130251] [130592] [130611] [131068] [131237] [131252] [131621] [131690]
[132860] Medium CVE-2012-2850: Various lower severity issues in the PDF
viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with
contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
[132585] [132694] [132861] High CVE-2012-2851: Integer overflows in PDF
viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with
contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
[134028] High CVE-2012-2852: Use-after-free with bad object linkage in
PDF. Credit to Alexey Samsonov of Google.
[134101] Medium CVE-2012-2853: webRequest can interfere with the Chrome
Web Store. Credit to Trev of Adblock.
[134519] Low CVE-2012-2854: Leak of pointer values to WebUI renderers.
Credit to Nasko Oskov of the Chromium development community.
[134888] High CVE-2012-2855: Use-after-free in PDF viewer. Credit to
Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael
Coldwind of Google Security Team.
[134954] [135264] High CVE-2012-2856: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF
viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with
contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
[$1000] [136235] High CVE-2012-2857: Use-after-free in CSS DOM. Credit
to Arthur Gerkis.
[$1000] [136894] High CVE-2012-2858: Buffer overflow in WebP decoder.
Credit to Jri Aedla.
[Linux only] [137541] Critical CVE-2012-2859: Crash in tab handling.
Credit to Jeff Roberts of Google Security Team.
[137671] Medium CVE-2012-2860: Out-of-bounds access when clicking in
date picker. Credit to Chamal de Silva." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends upgrading to the latest version of Chrome. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] Stable Channel Release
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
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in this document is accurate. However, the decision to use the information
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