Debian Security Advisory

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

Date Reported:
05 Mar 2016
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2016-1630, CVE-2016-1631, CVE-2016-1632, CVE-2016-1633, CVE-2016-1634, CVE-2016-1635, CVE-2016-1636, CVE-2016-1637, CVE-2016-1638, CVE-2016-1639, CVE-2016-1640, CVE-2016-1641, CVE-2016-1642.
More information:

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.

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

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 49.0.2623.75-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.