Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2883-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
23 Mar 2014
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-6653, CVE-2013-6654, CVE-2013-6655, CVE-2013-6656, CVE-2013-6657, CVE-2013-6658, CVE-2013-6659, CVE-2013-6660, CVE-2013-6661, CVE-2013-6663, CVE-2013-6664, CVE-2013-6665, CVE-2013-6666, CVE-2013-6667, CVE-2013-6668, CVE-2014-1700, CVE-2014-1701, CVE-2014-1702, CVE-2014-1703, CVE-2014-1704, CVE-2014-1705, CVE-2014-1713, CVE-2014-1715.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2013-6653

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in chromium's web contents color chooser.

  • CVE-2013-6654

    TheShow3511 discovered an issue in SVG handling.

  • CVE-2013-6655

    cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in dom event handling.

  • CVE-2013-6656

    NeexEmil discovered an information leak in the XSS auditor.

  • CVE-2013-6657

    NeexEmil discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin policy in the XSS auditor.

  • CVE-2013-6658

    cloudfuzzer discovered multiple use-after-free issues surrounding the updateWidgetPositions function.

  • CVE-2013-6659

    Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to trigger an unexpected certificate chain during TLS renegotiation.

  • CVE-2013-6660

    bishopjeffreys discovered an information leak in the drag and drop implementation.

  • CVE-2013-6661

    The Google Chrome team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 33.0.1750.117.

  • CVE-2013-6663

    Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in SVG handling.

  • CVE-2013-6664

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the speech recognition feature.

  • CVE-2013-6665

    cloudfuzzer discovered a buffer overflow issue in the software renderer.

  • CVE-2013-6666

    netfuzzer discovered a restriction bypass in the Pepper Flash plugin.

  • CVE-2013-6667

    The Google Chrome team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 33.0.1750.146.

  • CVE-2013-6668

    Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in version 3.24.35.10 of the V8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1700

    Chamal de Silva discovered a use-after-free issue in speech synthesis.

  • CVE-2014-1701

    aidanhs discovered a cross-site scripting issue in event handling.

  • CVE-2014-1702

    Colin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in the web database implementation.

  • CVE-2014-1703

    VUPEN discovered a use-after-free issue in web sockets that could lead to a sandbox escape.

  • CVE-2014-1704

    Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in version 3.23.17.18 of the V8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1705

    A memory corruption issue was discovered in the V8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1713

    A use-after-free issue was discovered in the AttributeSetter function.

  • CVE-2014-1715

    A directory traversal issue was found and fixed.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 33.0.1750.152-1~deb7u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 33.0.1750.152-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.