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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4330-1 (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 have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2018-5179 Yannic Boneberger discovered an error in the ServiceWorker implementation. CVE-2018-17462 Ned Williamson and Niklas Baumstark discovered a way to escape the sandbox. CVE-2018-17463 Ned Williamson and Niklas Baumstark discovered a remote code execution issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2018-17464 xisigr discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2018-17465 Lin Zuojian discovered a use-after-free issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2018-17466 Omair discovered a memory corruption issue in the angle library. CVE-2018-17467 Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2018-17468 Jams Lee discovered an information disclosure issue. CVE-2018-17469 Zhen Zhou discovered a buffer overflow issue in the pdfium library. CVE-2018-17470 Zhe Jin discovered a memory corruption issue in the GPU backend implementation. CVE-2018-17471 Lnyas Zhang discovered an issue with the full screen user interface. CVE-2018-17473 Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2018-17474 Zhe Jin discovered a use-after-free issue. CVE-2018-17475 Vladimir Metnew discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2018-17476 Khalil Zhani discovered an issue with the full screen user interface. CVE-2018-17477 Aaron Muir Hamilton discovered a user interface spoofing issue in the extensions pane. This update also fixes a buffer overflow in the embedded lcms library included with chromium.
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 (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 70.0.3538.67-1~deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages. For the detailed security status of chromium-browser please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.