Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. chromium v8 January 08, 2012 January 08, 2012: 1 394587 397907 remote 16.0.912.75 16.0.912.75 3.6.6.11 3.6.6.11

Chromium is an open source web browser project. V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and V8. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details.

A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site or JavaScript program using Chromium or V8, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition.

The attacker could also perform URL bar spoofing.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/chromium-16.0.912.75"

All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.6.6.11" CVE-2011-3903 CVE-2011-3904 CVE-2011-3906 CVE-2011-3907 CVE-2011-3908 CVE-2011-3909 CVE-2011-3910 CVE-2011-3912 CVE-2011-3913 CVE-2011-3914 CVE-2011-3917 CVE-2011-3921 CVE-2011-3922 Release Notes 16.0.912.63 Release Notes 16.0.912.75 phajdan.jr phajdan.jr