Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3267-1 chromium-browser -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 22 May 2015
- Affected Packages:
- chromium-browser
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1251, CVE-2015-1252, CVE-2015-1253, CVE-2015-1254, CVE-2015-1255, CVE-2015-1256, CVE-2015-1257, CVE-2015-1258, CVE-2015-1259, CVE-2015-1260, CVE-2015-1261, CVE-2015-1262, CVE-2015-1263, CVE-2015-1264, CVE-2015-1265.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.
- CVE-2015-1251
SkyLined discovered a use-after-free issue in speech recognition.
- CVE-2015-1252
An out-of-bounds write issue was discovered that could be used to escape from the sandbox.
- CVE-2015-1253
A cross-origin bypass issue was discovered in the DOM parser.
- CVE-2015-1254
A cross-origin bypass issue was discovered in the DOM editing feature.
- CVE-2015-1255
Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in WebAudio.
- CVE-2015-1256
Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in the SVG implementation.
- CVE-2015-1257
miaubiz discovered an overflow issue in the SVG implementation.
- CVE-2015-1258
cloudfuzzer discovered an invalid size parameter used in the libvpx library.
- CVE-2015-1259
Atte Kettunen discovered an uninitialized memory issue in the pdfium library.
- CVE-2015-1260
Khalil Zhani discovered multiple use-after-free issues in chromium's interface to the WebRTC library.
- CVE-2015-1261
Juho Nurminen discovered a URL bar spoofing issue.
- CVE-2015-1262
miaubiz discovered the use of an uninitialized class member in font handling.
- CVE-2015-1263
Mike Ruddy discovered that downloading the spellcheck dictionary was not done over HTTPS.
- CVE-2015-1264
K0r3Ph1L discovered a cross-site scripting issue that could be triggered by bookmarking a site.
- CVE-2015-1265
The chrome 43 development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in the libv8 library, version 4.3.61.21.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 43.0.2357.65-1~deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 43.0.2357.65-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.
- CVE-2015-1251