Debian DSA-3507-1 : chromium-browser - security update

Critical Nessus Plugin ID 89697

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

- CVE-2015-8126 Joerg Bornemann discovered multiple buffer overflow issues in the libpng library.

- CVE-2016-1630 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in Blink/Webkit.

- CVE-2016-1631 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in the Pepper Plugin API.

- CVE-2016-1632 A bad cast was discovered.

- CVE-2016-1633 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

- CVE-2016-1634 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

- CVE-2016-1635 Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

- CVE-2016-1636 A way to bypass SubResource Integrity validation was discovered.

- CVE-2016-1637 Keve Nagy discovered an information leak in the skia library.

- CVE-2016-1638 Rob Wu discovered a WebAPI bypass issue.

- CVE-2016-1639 Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebRTC implementation.

- CVE-2016-1640 Luan Herrera discovered an issue with the Extensions user interface.

- CVE-2016-1641 Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in the handling of favorite icons.

- CVE-2016-1642 The chrome 49 development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in the v8 JavaScript library, version 4.9.385.26.

Solution

Upgrade the chromium-browser packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 49.0.2623.75-1~deb8u1.

Debian DSA-3507-1 : chromium-browser - security update

Critical Nessus Plugin ID 89697

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CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0

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