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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3637-1 (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-2016-1704 The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. CVE-2016-1705 The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. CVE-2016-1706 Pinkie Pie discovered a way to escape the Pepper Plugin API sandbox. CVE-2016-1707 xisigr discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2016-1708 Adam Varsan discovered a use-after-free issue. CVE-2016-1709 ChenQin discovered a buffer overflow issue in the sfntly library. CVE-2016-1710 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a same-origin bypass. CVE-2016-1711 Mariusz Mlynski discovered another same-origin bypass. CVE-2016-5127 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue. CVE-2016-5128 A same-origin bypass issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-5129 Jeonghoon Shin discovered a memory corruption issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-5130 Widih Matar discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2016-5131 Nick Wellnhofer discovered a use-after-free issue in the libxml2 library. CVE-2016-5132 Ben Kelly discovered a same-origin bypass. CVE-2016-5133 Patch Eudor discovered an issue in proxy authentication. CVE-2016-5134 Paul Stone discovered an information leak in the Proxy Auto-Config feature. CVE-2016-5135 ShenYeYinJiu discovered a way to bypass the Content Security Policy. CVE-2016-5136 Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue. CVE-2016-5137 Xiaoyin Liu discovered a way to discover whether an HSTS web side had been visited.
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 52.0.2743.82-1~deb8u1. For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 52.0.2743.82-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.