Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3376-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
20 Oct 2015
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304, CVE-2015-6755, CVE-2015-6756, CVE-2015-6757, CVE-2015-6758, CVE-2015-6759, CVE-2015-6760, CVE-2015-6761, CVE-2015-6762, CVE-2015-6763.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2015-1303

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in the DOM implementation.

  • CVE-2015-1304

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2015-6755

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in blink/webkit.

  • CVE-2015-6756

    A use-after-free issue was found in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-6757

    Collin Payne found a use-after-free issue in the ServiceWorker implementation.

  • CVE-2015-6758

    Atte Kettunen found an issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-6759

    Muneaki Nishimura discovered an information leak.

  • CVE-2015-6760

    Ronald Crane discovered a logic error in the ANGLE library involving lost device events.

  • CVE-2015-6761

    Aki Helin and Khalil Zhani discovered a memory corruption issue in the ffmpeg library.

  • CVE-2015-6762

    Muneaki Nishimura discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in the CSS implementation.

  • CVE-2015-6763

    The chrome 46 development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in the v8 javascript library, version 4.6.85.23.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 46.0.2490.71-1~deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 46.0.2490.71-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.