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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2959-1 (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-2014-3154 Collin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in the filesystem API. CVE-2014-3155 James March, Daniel Sommermann, and Alan Frindell discovered several out-of-bounds read issues in the SPDY protocol implementation. CVE-2014-3156 Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow issue in bitmap handling in the clipboard implementation. CVE-2014-3157 A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in chromium's ffmpeg media filter. In addition, this version corrects a regression in the previous update. Support for older i386 processors had been dropped. This functionality is now restored.
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 (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1. For the testing (jessie) and unstable (sid) distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 35.0.1916.153-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.