Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities

Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. chromium v8 2012-05-21 2012-05-21: 1 416119 remote 19.0.1084.46 19.0.1084.46 3.9.24.21 3.9.24.21

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.

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-19.0.1084.46"

All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.9.24.21"

CVE-2011-3083 CVE-2011-3084 CVE-2011-3085 CVE-2011-3086 CVE-2011-3087 CVE-2011-3088 CVE-2011-3089 CVE-2011-3090 CVE-2011-3091 CVE-2011-3092 CVE-2011-3093 CVE-2011-3094 CVE-2011-3095 CVE-2011-3096 CVE-2011-3100 CVE-2011-3101 Release Notes 19.0.1084.46 phajdan.jr phajdan.jr