DSA-3549-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3549-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Apr 2016

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1651, CVE-2016-1652, CVE-2016-1653, CVE-2016-1654, CVE-2016-1655, CVE-2016-1657, CVE-2016-1658, CVE-2016-1659.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

• CVE-2016-1651

  An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the pdfium library.

• CVE-2016-1652

  A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in extension bindings.

• CVE-2016-1653

  Choongwoo Han discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the v8 javascript library.

• CVE-2016-1654

  Atte Kettunen discovered an uninitialized memory read condition.

• CVE-2016-1655

  Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue related to extensions.

• CVE-2016-1657

  Luan Herrera discovered a way to spoof URLs.

• CVE-2016-1658

  Antonio Sanso discovered an information leak related to extensions.

• CVE-2016-1659

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

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 50.0.2661.75-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 50.0.2661.75-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.