DSA-3683-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3683-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

02 Oct 2016

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

• CVE-2016-5177

  A use-after-free issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.

• CVE-2016-5178

  The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.143-1~deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.143-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.