Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3985-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
28 Sep 2017
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5111, CVE-2017-5112, CVE-2017-5113, CVE-2017-5114, CVE-2017-5115, CVE-2017-5116, CVE-2017-5117, CVE-2017-5118, CVE-2017-5119, CVE-2017-5120, CVE-2017-5121, CVE-2017-5122.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2017-5111

    Luat Nguyen discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2017-5112

    Tobias Klein discovered a buffer overflow issue in the webgl library.

  • CVE-2017-5113

    A buffer overflow issue was discovered in the skia library.

  • CVE-2017-5114

    Ke Liu discovered a memory issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2017-5115

    Marco Giovannini discovered a type confusion issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2017-5116

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

  • CVE-2017-5117

    Tobias Klein discovered an uninitialized value in the skia library.

  • CVE-2017-5118

    WenXu Wu discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy.

  • CVE-2017-5119

    Another uninitialized value was discovered in the skia library.

  • CVE-2017-5120

    Xiaoyin Liu discovered a way downgrade HTTPS connections during redirection.

  • CVE-2017-5121

    Jordan Rabet discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2017-5122

    Choongwoo Han discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in the v8 javascript library.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 61.0.3163.100-1~deb9u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 61.0.3163.100-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.