Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-2930-1 chromium-browser

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2930-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

17 May 2014

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1740, CVE-2014-1741, CVE-2014-1742.

More information:

Several vulnerabilties have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

• CVE-2014-1740

  Collin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in chromium's WebSockets implementation.

• CVE-2014-1741

  John Butler discovered multiple integer overflow issues in the Blink/Webkit document object model implementation.

• CVE-2014-1742

  cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the Blink/Webkit text editing feature.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.137-1~deb7u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.137-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.