Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2920-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
03 May 2014
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1730, CVE-2014-1731, CVE-2014-1732, CVE-2014-1733, CVE-2014-1734, CVE-2014-1735, CVE-2014-1736.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2014-1730

    A type confusion issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1731

    John Butler discovered a type confusion issue in the WebKit/Blink document object model implementation.

  • CVE-2014-1732

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

  • CVE-2014-1733

    Jed Davis discovered a way to bypass the seccomp-bpf sandbox.

  • CVE-2014-1734

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

  • CVE-2014-1735

    The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 3.24.35.33 of the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2014-1736

    SkyLined discovered an integer overlflow issue in the v8 javascript library.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.132-1~deb7u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.132-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.