Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3238-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
26 Apr 2015
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1235, CVE-2015-1236, CVE-2015-1237, CVE-2015-1238, CVE-2015-1240, CVE-2015-1241, CVE-2015-1242, CVE-2015-1244, CVE-2015-1245, CVE-2015-1246, CVE-2015-1247, CVE-2015-1248, CVE-2015-1249, CVE-2015-3333, CVE-2015-3334, CVE-2015-3336.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2015-1235

    A Same Origin Policy bypass issue was discovered in the HTML parser.

  • CVE-2015-1236

    Amitay Dobo discovered a Same Origin Policy bypass in the Web Audio API.

  • CVE-2015-1237

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in IPC.

  • CVE-2015-1238

    cloudfuzzer discovered an out-of-bounds write in the skia library.

  • CVE-2015-1240

    w3bd3vil discovered an out-of-bounds read in the WebGL implementation.

  • CVE-2015-1241

    Phillip Moon and Matt Weston discovered a way to trigger local user interface actions remotely via a crafted website.

  • CVE-2015-1242

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

  • CVE-2015-1244

    Mike Ruddy discovered a way to bypass the HTTP Strict Transport Security policy.

  • CVE-2015-1245

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-1246

    Atte Kettunen discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in webkit/blink.

  • CVE-2015-1247

    Jann Horn discovered that file: URLs in OpenSearch documents were not sanitized, which could allow local files to be read remotely when using the OpenSearch feature from a crafted website.

  • CVE-2015-1248

    Vittorio Gambaletta discovered a way to bypass the SafeBrowsing feature, which could allow the remote execution of a downloaded executable file.

  • CVE-2015-1249

    The chrome 41 development team found various issues from internal fuzzing, audits, and other studies.

  • CVE-2015-3333

    Multiple issues were discovered and fixed in v8 4.2.7.14.

  • CVE-2015-3334

    It was discovered that remote websites could capture video data from attached web cameras without permission.

  • CVE-2015-3336

    It was discovered that remote websites could cause user interface disruptions like window fullscreening and mouse pointer locking.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 42.0.2311.90-1~deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 42.0.2311.90-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.