Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. chromium v8 2011-11-19 2011-11-19 390113 390779 remote 15.0.874.121 15.0.874.121 3.5.10.24 3.5.10.24

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 also could cause a Java applet to run without user confirmation.

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-15.0.874.121"

All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.5.10.24" CVE-2011-3892 CVE-2011-3893 CVE-2011-3894 CVE-2011-3895 CVE-2011-3896 CVE-2011-3897 CVE-2011-3898 CVE-2011-3900 Release Notes 15.0.874.120 Release Notes 15.0.874.121 phajdan.jr phajdan.jr