DSA-3513-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3513-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

10 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1643, CVE-2016-1644, CVE-2016-1645.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

• CVE-2016-1643

  cloudfuzzer discovered a type confusion issue in Blink/Webkit.

• CVE-2016-1644

  Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

• CVE-2016-1645

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

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 49.0.2623.87-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 49.0.2623.87-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.