Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3590-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
01 Jun 2016
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1667, CVE-2016-1668, CVE-2016-1669, CVE-2016-1670, CVE-2016-1672, CVE-2016-1673, CVE-2016-1674, CVE-2016-1675, CVE-2016-1676, CVE-2016-1677, CVE-2016-1678, CVE-2016-1679, CVE-2016-1680, CVE-2016-1681, CVE-2016-1682, CVE-2016-1683, CVE-2016-1684, CVE-2016-1685, CVE-2016-1686, CVE-2016-1687, CVE-2016-1688, CVE-2016-1689, CVE-2016-1690, CVE-2016-1691, CVE-2016-1692, CVE-2016-1693, CVE-2016-1694, CVE-2016-1695.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2016-1667

    Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass.

  • CVE-2016-1668

    Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass in bindings to v8.

  • CVE-2016-1669

    Choongwoo Han discovered a buffer overflow in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2016-1670

    A race condition was found that could cause the renderer process to reuse ids that should have been unique.

  • CVE-2016-1672

    Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass in extension bindings.

  • CVE-2016-1673

    Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass in Blink/Webkit.

  • CVE-2016-1674

    Mariusz Mylinski discovered another cross-origin bypass in extension bindings.

  • CVE-2016-1675

    Mariusz Mylinski discovered another cross-origin bypass in Blink/Webkit.

  • CVE-2016-1676

    Rob Wu discovered a cross-origin bypass in extension bindings.

  • CVE-2016-1677

    Guang Gong discovered a type confusion issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2016-1678

    Christian Holler discovered an overflow issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2016-1679

    Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in the bindings to v8.

  • CVE-2016-1680

    Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in the skia library.

  • CVE-2016-1681

    Aleksandar Nikolic discovered an overflow issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-1682

    KingstonTime discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy.

  • CVE-2016-1683

    Nicolas Gregoire discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the libxslt library.

  • CVE-2016-1684

    Nicolas Gregoire discovered an integer overflow issue in the libxslt library.

  • CVE-2016-1685

    Ke Liu discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-1686

    Ke Liu discovered another out-of-bounds read issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-1687

    Rob Wu discovered an information leak in the handling of extensions.

  • CVE-2016-1688

    Max Korenko discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2016-1689

    Rob Wu discovered a buffer overflow issue.

  • CVE-2016-1690

    Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2016-1691

    Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow issue in the skia library.

  • CVE-2016-1692

    Til Jasper Ullrich discovered a cross-origin bypass issue.

  • CVE-2016-1693

    Khalil Zhani discovered that the Software Removal Tool download was done over an HTTP connection.

  • CVE-2016-1694

    Ryan Lester and Bryant Zadegan discovered that pinned public keys would be removed when clearing the browser cache.

  • CVE-2016-1695

    The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 51.0.2704.63-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 51.0.2704.63-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.