Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2905-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
15 Apr 2014
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1716, CVE-2014-1717, CVE-2014-1718, CVE-2014-1719, CVE-2014-1720, CVE-2014-1721, CVE-2014-1722, CVE-2014-1723, CVE-2014-1724, CVE-2014-1725, CVE-2014-1726, CVE-2014-1727, CVE-2014-1728, CVE-2014-1729.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2014-1716

    A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1717

    An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1718

    Aaron Staple discovered an integer overflow issue in chromium's software compositor.

  • CVE-2014-1719

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

  • CVE-2014-1720

    cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the Blink/Webkit document object model implementation.

  • CVE-2014-1721

    Christian Holler discovered a memory corruption issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1722

    miaubiz discovered a use-after-free issue in block rendering.

  • CVE-2014-1723

    George McBay discovered a url spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2014-1724

    Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in freebsoft's libspeechd library.

    Because of this issue, the text-to-speech feature is now disabled by default ("--enable-speech-dispatcher" at the command-line can re-enable it).

  • CVE-2014-1725

    An out-of-bounds read was discovered in the base64 implementation.

  • CVE-2014-1726

    Jann Horn discovered a way to bypass the same origin policy.

  • CVE-2014-1727

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the web color chooser implementation.

  • CVE-2014-1728

    The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues with potential security impact.

  • CVE-2014-1729

    The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 3.24.35.22 of the v8 javascript library.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.116-1~deb7u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.116-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.