Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3456-1 chromium-browser -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 27 Jan 2016
- Affected Packages:
- chromium-browser
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-6792, CVE-2016-1612, CVE-2016-1613, CVE-2016-1614, CVE-2016-1615, CVE-2016-1616, CVE-2016-1617, CVE-2016-1618, CVE-2016-1619, CVE-2016-1620.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.
- CVE-2015-6792
An issue was found in the handling of MIDI files.
- CVE-2016-1612
cloudfuzzer discovered a logic error related to receiver compatibility in the v8 javascript library.
- CVE-2016-1613
A use-after-free issue was discovered in the pdfium library.
- CVE-2016-1614
Christoph Diehl discovered an information leak in Webkit/Blink.
- CVE-2016-1615
Ron Masas discovered a way to spoof URLs.
- CVE-2016-1616
Luan Herrera discovered a way to spoof URLs.
- CVE-2016-1617
jenuis discovered a way to discover whether an HSTS web site had been visited.
- CVE-2016-1618
Aaron Toponce discovered the use of weak random number generator.
- CVE-2016-1619
Keve Nagy discovered an out-of-bounds-read issue in the pdfium library.
- CVE-2016-1620
The chrome 48 development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in the v8 javascript library, version 4.7.271.17.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 48.0.2564.82-1~deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 48.0.2564.82-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.
- CVE-2015-6792