DSA-3667-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3667-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Sep 2016

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5170, CVE-2016-5171, CVE-2016-5172, CVE-2016-5173, CVE-2016-5174, CVE-2016-5175, CVE-2016-7395.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

• CVE-2016-5170

  A use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink/Webkit.

• CVE-2016-5171

  Another use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink/Webkit.

• CVE-2016-5172

  Choongwoo Han discovered an information leak in the v8 javascript library.

• CVE-2016-5173

  A resource bypass issue was discovered in extensions.

• CVE-2016-5174

  Andrey Kovalev discoved a way to bypass the popup blocker.

• CVE-2016-5175

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

• CVE-2016-7395

  An uninitialized memory read issue was discovered in the skia library.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.113-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.