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Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities


Secunia ID

SA50872

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2900, CVE-2012-5108, CVE-2012-5109, CVE-2012-5110, CVE-2012-5111, CVE-2012-5248, CVE-2012-5249, CVE-2012-5250, CVE-2012-5251, CVE-2012-5252, CVE-2012-5253, CVE-2012-5254, CVE-2012-5255, CVE-2012-5256, CVE-2012-5257, CVE-2012-5258, CVE-2012-5259, CVE-2012-5260, CVE-2012-5261, CVE-2012-5262, CVE-2012-5263, CVE-2012-5264, CVE-2012-5265, CVE-2012-5266, CVE-2012-5267, CVE-2012-5268, CVE-2012-5269, CVE-2012-5270, CVE-2012-5271, CVE-2012-5272

Release Date

09 Oct 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Google Chrome 22.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) The application bundles a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash player.

For more information:
SA50876

2) An error exists related to Skia text rendering.

3) A race condition error exists related to audio device handling.

4) An error exists related to ICU regex handling and can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read.

5) An error exists related to compositor handling and can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read.

6) An error exists related to plug-in crash monitoring for Pepper plug-ins.

Solution

Update to version 22.0.1229.92.

Reported by

The vendor credits:
2, 3) Atte Kettunen, OUSPG.
4) Arthur Gerkis.
5) Inferno, Google Chrome Security Team.
6) Chris Evans, Google Chrome Security Team.

Original Advisory

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.dk/2012/10/stable-channel-update.html