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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4182-1 (chromium-browser - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

5 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2018-6056 lokihardt discovered an error in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2018-6057 Gal Beniamini discovered errors related to shared memory permissions. CVE-2018-6060 Omair discovered a use-after-free issue in blink/webkit. CVE-2018-6061 Guang Gong discovered a race condition in the v8 javascript library. Description truncated. Please see the references for more information.

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 oldstable distribution (jessie), security support for chromium has been discontinued. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 66.0.3359.117-1~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.