Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3660-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
05 Sep 2016
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5147, CVE-2016-5148, CVE-2016-5149, CVE-2016-5150, CVE-2016-5151, CVE-2016-5152, CVE-2016-5153, CVE-2016-5154, CVE-2016-5155, CVE-2016-5156, CVE-2016-5157, CVE-2016-5158, CVE-2016-5159, CVE-2016-5160, CVE-2016-5161, CVE-2016-5162, CVE-2016-5163, CVE-2016-5164, CVE-2016-5165, CVE-2016-5166, CVE-2016-5167.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2016-5147

    A cross-site scripting issue was discovered.

  • CVE-2016-5148

    Another cross-site scripting issue was discovered.

  • CVE-2016-5149

    Max Justicz discovered a script injection issue in extension handling.

  • CVE-2016-5150

    A use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink/Webkit.

  • CVE-2016-5151

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

  • CVE-2016-5152

    GiWan Go discovered a heap overflow issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-5153

    Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-destruction issue.

  • CVE-2016-5154

    A heap overflow issue was discovered in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-5155

    An address bar spoofing issue was discovered.

  • CVE-2016-5156

    jinmo123 discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2016-5157

    A heap overflow issue was discovered in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-5158

    GiWan Go discovered a heap overflow issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-5159

    GiWan Go discovered another heap overflow issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2016-5160

    @l33terally discovered an extensions resource bypass.

  • CVE-2016-5161

    A type confusion issue was discovered.

  • CVE-2016-5162

    Nicolas Golubovic discovered an extensions resource bypass.

  • CVE-2016-5163

    Rafay Baloch discovered an address bar spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2016-5164

    A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in the developer tools.

  • CVE-2016-5165

    Gregory Panakkal discovered a script injection issue in the developer tools.

  • CVE-2016-5166

    Gregory Panakkal discovered an issue with the Save Page As feature.

  • CVE-2016-5167

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

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.89-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.89-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.