Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2166-1 chromium-browser -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
16 Feb 2011
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0777, CVE-2011-0778, CVE-2011-0783, CVE-2011-0983, CVE-2011-0981, CVE-2011-0984, CVE-2011-0985.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2011-0777

    Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to image loading.

  • CVE-2011-0778

    Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 does not properly restrict drag and drop operations, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via unspecified vectors.

  • CVE-2011-0783

    Unspecified vulnerability in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving a bad volume setting.

  • CVE-2011-0983

    Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly handle anonymous blocks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to a stale pointer.

  • CVE-2011-0981

    Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly perform event handling for animations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to a stale pointer.

  • CVE-2011-0984

    Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly handle plug-ins, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

  • CVE-2011-0985

    Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly perform process termination upon memory exhaustion, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze2.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.0.597.98~r74359-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.