Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3776-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
31 Jan 2017
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007, CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012, CVE-2017-5013, CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5015, CVE-2017-5016, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5018, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5020, CVE-2017-5021, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023, CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2017-5006

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a cross-site scripting issue.

  • CVE-2017-5007

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered another cross-site scripting issue.

  • CVE-2017-5008

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a third cross-site scripting issue.

  • CVE-2017-5009

    Sean Stanek and Chip Bradford discovered an out-of-bounds memory issue in the webrtc library.

  • CVE-2017-5010

    Mariusz Mlynski discovered a fourth cross-site scripting issue.

  • CVE-2017-5011

    Khalil Zhani discovered a way to access unauthorized files in the developer tools.

  • CVE-2017-5012

    Gergely Nagy discovered a heap overflow issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2017-5013

    Haosheng Wang discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2017-5014

    sweetchip discovered a heap overflow issue in the skia library.

  • CVE-2017-5015

    Armin Razmdjou discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2017-5016

    Haosheng Wang discovered another URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2017-5017

    danberm discovered an uninitialized memory issue in support for webm video files.

  • CVE-2017-5018

    Rob Wu discovered a cross-site scripting issue.

  • CVE-2017-5019

    Wadih Matar discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2017-5020

    Rob Wu discovered another cross-site scripting issue.

  • CVE-2017-5021

    Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in extensions.

  • CVE-2017-5022

    PKAV Team discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy.

  • CVE-2017-5023

    UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) discovered a type confusion issue.

  • CVE-2017-5024

    Paul Mehta discovered a heap overflow issue in the ffmpeg library.

  • CVE-2017-5025

    Paul Mehta discovered another heap overflow issue in the ffmpeg library.

  • CVE-2017-5026

    Ronni Skansing discovered a user interface spoofing issue.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 56.0.2924.76-1~deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.