Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. chromium v8 March 30, 2012 March 30, 2012: 1 410045 remote 18.0.1025.142 18.0.1025.142 3.8.9.16 3.8.9.16

Chromium is an open source web browser project. V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. SPDY is an experimental networking protocol.

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 entice a user to open a specially crafted web site using Chromium, possibly resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS), or an unspecified SPDY certificate checking error.

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-18.0.1025.142"

All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.8.9.16"
CVE-2011-3057 CVE-2011-3058 CVE-2011-3059 CVE-2011-3060 CVE-2011-3061 CVE-2011-3062 CVE-2011-3063 CVE-2011-3064 CVE-2011-3065 Release Notes 18.0.1025.142 phajdan.jr phajdan.jr