Debian Security Advisory DSA 4020-1 (chromium-browser - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. In addition, this message serves as an annoucment that security support for chromium in the oldstable release (jessie), Debian 8, is now discontinued. Debian 8 chromium users that desire continued security updates are strongly encouraged to upgrade now to the current stable release (stretch), Debian 9. An alternative is to switch to the firefox browser, which will continue to receive security updates in jessie for some time. CVE-2017-5124 A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in MHTML. CVE-2017-5125 A heap overflow issue was discovered in the skia library. CVE-2017-5126 Luat Nguyen discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library. CVE-2017-5127 Luat Nguyen discovered another use-after-free issue in the pdfium library. CVE-2017-5128 Omair discovered a heap overflow issue in the WebGL implementation. CVE-2017-5129 Omair discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebAudio implementation. CVE-2017-5131 An out-of-bounds write issue was discovered in the skia library. CVE-2017-5132 Guarav Dewan discovered an error in the WebAssembly implementation. CVE-2017-5133 Aleksandar Nikolic discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the skia library. CVE-2017-15386 WenXu Wu discovered a user interface spoofing issue. CVE-2017-15387 Jun Kokatsu discovered a way to bypass the content security policy. CVE-2017-15388 Kushal Arvind Shah discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the skia library. CVE-2017-15389 xisigr discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2017-15390 Haosheng Wang discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2017-15391 Joao Lucas Melo Brasio discovered a way for an extension to bypass its limitations. CVE-2017-15392 Xiaoyin Liu discovered an error the implementation of registry keys. CVE-2017-15393 Svyat Mitin discovered an issue in the devtools. CVE-2017-15394 Sam discovered a URL spoofing issue. CVE-2017-15395 Johannes Bergman discovered a null pointer dereference issue. CVE-2017-15396 Yuan Deng discovered a stack overflow issue in the v8 javascript library.

chromium-browser on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), security support for chromium has been discontinued. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 62.0.3202.75-1~deb9u1. For the testing distribution (buster), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 62.0.3202.75-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.