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A chromium security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: chromium-94.0.4606.81-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-5093f11905
2021-11-04 01:23:06.445383
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Name : chromium
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 94.0.4606.81
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   http://www.chromium.org/Home
Summary : A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use
Description :
Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

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Update Information:

Update to 94.0.4606.81. Built with is_official_build=true, which disables all
sorts of debugging check functions that upstream turned on in 94. These
debugging checks were failing and causing the program to crash in ... fun ways.
It also fixes the usual pile of security issues, most notably: CVE-2021-37974
CVE-2021-37975 CVE-2021-37976 CVE-2021-37977 CVE-2021-37978 CVE-2021-37979
CVE-2021-37980
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 8 2021 Tom Callaway - 94.0.4606.81-1
- update to 94.0.4606.81
* Wed Oct 6 2021 Tom Callaway - 94.0.4606.71-2
- add official_build flag
- apply upstream patch to handle nullptr correctly in PartitionGetSizeEstimate()
* Tue Oct 5 2021 Tom Callaway - 94.0.4606.71-1
- update to 94.0.4606.71
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2010573 - CVE-2021-37974 chromium-browser: Use after free in Safe Browsing
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010573
[ 2 ] Bug #2010574 - CVE-2021-37975 chromium-browser: Use after free in V8
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010574
[ 3 ] Bug #2010575 - CVE-2021-37976 chromium-browser: Information leak in core
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2010575
[ 4 ] Bug #2012660 - CVE-2021-37977 chromium-browser: Use after free in Garbage Collection
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012660
[ 5 ] Bug #2012661 - CVE-2021-37978 chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Blink
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012661
[ 6 ] Bug #2012662 - CVE-2021-37979 chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012662
[ 7 ] Bug #2012663 - CVE-2021-37980 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Sandbox
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012663
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-5093f11905' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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