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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3456-1 (chromium-browser - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2015-6792 An issue was found in the handling of MIDI files. CVE-2016-1612 cloudfuzzer discovered a logic error related to receiver compatibility in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-1613 A use-after-free issue was discovered in the pdfium library. CVE-2016-1614 Christoph Diehl discovered an information leak in Webkit/Blink. CVE-2016-1615 Ron Masas discovered a way to spoof URLs. CVE-2016-1616 Luan Herrera discovered a way to spoof URLs. CVE-2016-1617 jenuis discovered a way to discover whether an HSTS web site had been visited. CVE-2016-1618 Aaron Toponce discovered the use of weak random number generator. CVE-2016-1619 Keve Nagy discovered an out-of-bounds-read issue in the pdfium library. CVE-2016-1620 The chrome 48 development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in the v8 javascript library, version 4.7.271.17.
Affected Software
Affected Software
chromium-browser on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 48.0.2564.82-1~deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 48.0.2564.82-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.