Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3667-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
15 Sep 2016
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5170, CVE-2016-5171, CVE-2016-5172, CVE-2016-5173, CVE-2016-5174, CVE-2016-5175, CVE-2016-7395.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2016-5170

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

  • CVE-2016-5171

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

  • CVE-2016-5172

    Choongwoo Han discovered an information leak in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2016-5173

    A resource bypass issue was discovered in extensions.

  • CVE-2016-5174

    Andrey Kovalev discoved a way to bypass the popup blocker.

  • CVE-2016-5175

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

  • CVE-2016-7395

    An uninitialized memory read issue was discovered in the skia library.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.113-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.