Debian DSA-2905-1 : chromium-browser - security update

High Nessus Plugin ID 73581

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VPR Score: 6.7

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.

- CVE-2014-1716 A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in the v8 JavaScript library.

- CVE-2014-1717 An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the v8 JavaScript library.

- CVE-2014-1718 Aaron Staple discovered an integer overflow issue in chromium's software compositor.

- CVE-2014-1719 Colin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in the web workers implementation.

- CVE-2014-1720 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the Blink/Webkit document object model implementation.

- CVE-2014-1721 Christian Holler discovered a memory corruption issue in the v8 JavaScript library.

- CVE-2014-1722 miaubiz discovered a use-after-free issue in block rendering.

- CVE-2014-1723 George McBay discovered a url spoofing issue.

- CVE-2014-1724 Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in freebsoft's libspeechd library.

Because of this issue, the text-to-speech feature is now disabled by default ('--enable-speech-dispatcher' at the command-line can re-enable it).

- CVE-2014-1725 An out-of-bounds read was discovered in the base64 implementation.

- CVE-2014-1726 Jann Horn discovered a way to bypass the same origin policy.

- CVE-2014-1727 Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the web color chooser implementation.

- CVE-2014-1728 The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues with potential security impact.

- CVE-2014-1729 The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 3.24.35.22 of the v8 JavaScript library.

Solution

Upgrade the chromium-browser packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.116-1~deb7u1.

Debian DSA-2905-1 : chromium-browser - security update

High Nessus Plugin ID 73581

New! Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR)

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