Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3415-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
09 Dec 2015
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1302, CVE-2015-6764, CVE-2015-6765, CVE-2015-6766, CVE-2015-6767, CVE-2015-6768, CVE-2015-6769, CVE-2015-6770, CVE-2015-6771, CVE-2015-6772, CVE-2015-6773, CVE-2015-6774, CVE-2015-6775, CVE-2015-6776, CVE-2015-6777, CVE-2015-6778, CVE-2015-6779, CVE-2015-6780, CVE-2015-6781, CVE-2015-6782, CVE-2015-6784, CVE-2015-6785, CVE-2015-6786.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2015-1302

    Rub Wu discovered an information leak in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-6764

    Guang Gong discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2015-6765

    A use-after-free issue was discovered in AppCache.

  • CVE-2015-6766

    A use-after-free issue was discovered in AppCache.

  • CVE-2015-6767

    A use-after-free issue was discovered in AppCache.

  • CVE-2015-6768

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

  • CVE-2015-6769

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

  • CVE-2015-6770

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

  • CVE-2015-6771

    An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2015-6772

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

  • CVE-2015-6773

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

  • CVE-2015-6774

    A use-after-free issue was found in extensions binding.

  • CVE-2015-6775

    Atte Kettunen discovered a type confusion issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-6776

    Hanno Böck dicovered an out-of-bounds access issue in the openjpeg library, which is used by pdfium.

  • CVE-2015-6777

    Long Liu found a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2015-6778

    Karl Skomski found an out-of-bounds read issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-6779

    Til Jasper Ullrich discovered that the pdfium library does not sanitize chrome: URLs.

  • CVE-2015-6780

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2015-6781

    miaubiz discovered an integer overflow issue in the sfntly library.

  • CVE-2015-6782

    Luan Herrera discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2015-6784

    Inti De Ceukelaire discovered a way to inject HTML into serialized web pages.

  • CVE-2015-6785

    Michael Ficarra discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy.

  • CVE-2015-6786

    Michael Ficarra discovered another way to bypass the Content Security Policy.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 47.0.2526.73-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 47.0.2526.73-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.