Security Information / 2015 / Security Information -- DSA-3242-1 chromium-browser

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3242-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

30 Apr 2015

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser:

• CVE-2015-1243

  Saif El-Sherei discovered a use-after-free issue.

• CVE-2015-1250

  The chrome 42 team found and fixed multiple issues during internal auditing.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 42.0.2311.135-1~deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 42.0.2311.135-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.