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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4024-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:

08 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

chromium-browser

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-15398, CVE-2017-15399.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium browser.

• CVE-2017-15398

  Ned Williamson discovered a stack overflow issue.

• CVE-2017-15399

  Zhao Qixun discovered a use-after-free issue in the v8 javascript library.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), security support for chromium has been discontinued.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 62.0.3202.89-1~deb9u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 62.0.3202.89-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.