Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4237-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
30 Jun 2018
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6118, CVE-2018-6120, CVE-2018-6121, CVE-2018-6122, CVE-2018-6123, CVE-2018-6124, CVE-2018-6125, CVE-2018-6126, CVE-2018-6127, CVE-2018-6129, CVE-2018-6130, CVE-2018-6131, CVE-2018-6132, CVE-2018-6133, CVE-2018-6134, CVE-2018-6135, CVE-2018-6136, CVE-2018-6137, CVE-2018-6138, CVE-2018-6139, CVE-2018-6140, CVE-2018-6141, CVE-2018-6142, CVE-2018-6143, CVE-2018-6144, CVE-2018-6145, CVE-2018-6147, CVE-2018-6148, CVE-2018-6149.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2018-6118

    Ned Williamson discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2018-6120

    Zhou Aiting discovered a buffer overflow issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2018-6121

    It was discovered that malicious extensions could escalate privileges.

  • CVE-2018-6122

    A type confusion issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2018-6123

    Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2018-6124

    Guang Gong discovered a type confusion issue.

  • CVE-2018-6125

    Yubico discovered that the WebUSB implementation was too permissive.

  • CVE-2018-6126

    Ivan Fratric discovered a buffer overflow issue in the skia library.

  • CVE-2018-6127

    Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2018-6129

    Natalie Silvanovich discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in WebRTC.

  • CVE-2018-6130

    Natalie Silvanovich discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in WebRTC.

  • CVE-2018-6131

    Natalie Silvanovich discovered an error in WebAssembly.

  • CVE-2018-6132

    Ronald E. Crane discovered an uninitialized memory issue.

  • CVE-2018-6133

    Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2018-6134

    Jun Kokatsu discovered a way to bypass the Referrer Policy.

  • CVE-2018-6135

    Jasper Rebane discovered a user interface spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2018-6136

    Peter Wong discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2018-6137

    Michael Smith discovered an information leak.

  • CVE-2018-6138

    François Lajeunesse-Robert discovered that the extensions policy was too permissive.

  • CVE-2018-6139

    Rob Wu discovered a way to bypass restrictions in the debugger extension.

  • CVE-2018-6140

    Rob Wu discovered a way to bypass restrictions in the debugger extension.

  • CVE-2018-6141

    Yangkang discovered a buffer overflow issue in the skia library.

  • CVE-2018-6142

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

  • CVE-2018-6143

    Guang Gong discovered an out-of-bounds read in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2018-6144

    pdknsk discovered an out-of-bounds read in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2018-6145

    Masato Kinugawa discovered an error in the MathML implementation.

  • CVE-2018-6147

    Michail Pishchagin discovered an error in password entry fields.

  • CVE-2018-6148

    Michał Bentkowski discovered that the Content Security Policy header was handled incorrectly.

  • CVE-2018-6149

    Yu Zhou and Jundong Xie discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the v8 javascript library.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 67.0.3396.87-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

For the detailed security status of chromium-browser please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/chromium-browser