Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3683-1 chromium-browser -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 02 Oct 2016
- Affected Packages:
- chromium-browser
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.
- CVE-2016-5177
A use-after-free issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.
- CVE-2016-5178
The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.143-1~deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 53.0.2785.143-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.
- CVE-2016-5177