Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2732-1 chromium-browser -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
31 Jul 2013
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-2881, CVE-2013-2882, CVE-2013-2883, CVE-2013-2884, CVE-2013-2885, CVE-2013-2886.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2013-2881

    Karthik Bhargavan discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in frame handling.

  • CVE-2013-2882

    Cloudfuzzer discovered a type confusion issue in the V8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2013-2883

    Cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in MutationObserver.

  • CVE-2013-2884

    Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a use-after-free issue in the DOM implementation.

  • CVE-2013-2885

    Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a use-after-free issue in input handling.

  • CVE-2013-2886

    The chrome 28 development team found various issues from internal fuzzing, audits, and other studies.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 28.0.1500.95-1~deb7u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 28.0.1500.95-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.