DSA-3985-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3985-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5111, CVE-2017-5112, CVE-2017-5113, CVE-2017-5114, CVE-2017-5115, CVE-2017-5116, CVE-2017-5117, CVE-2017-5118, CVE-2017-5119, CVE-2017-5120, CVE-2017-5121, CVE-2017-5122.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

• CVE-2017-5111

  Luat Nguyen discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library.

• CVE-2017-5112

  Tobias Klein discovered a buffer overflow issue in the webgl library.

• CVE-2017-5113

  A buffer overflow issue was discovered in the skia library.

• CVE-2017-5114

  Ke Liu discovered a memory issue in the pdfium library.

• CVE-2017-5115

  Marco Giovannini discovered a type confusion issue in the v8 javascript library.

• CVE-2017-5116

  Guang Gong discovered a type confusion issue in the v8 javascript library.

• CVE-2017-5117

  Tobias Klein discovered an uninitialized value in the skia library.

• CVE-2017-5118

  WenXu Wu discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy.

• CVE-2017-5119

  Another uninitialized value was discovered in the skia library.

• CVE-2017-5120

  Xiaoyin Liu discovered a way downgrade HTTPS connections during redirection.

• CVE-2017-5121

  Jordan Rabet discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in the v8 javascript library.

• CVE-2017-5122

  Choongwoo Han discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in the v8 javascript library.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 61.0.3163.100-1~deb9u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 61.0.3163.100-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.