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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4352-1 (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-2018-17480 Guang Gong discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2018-17481 Several use-after-free issues were discovered in the pdfium library. CVE-2018-18335 A buffer overflow issue was discovered in the skia library. CVE-2018-18336 Huyna discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library. CVE-2018-18337 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in blink/webkit. CVE-2018-18338 Zhe Jin discovered a buffer overflow issue in the canvas renderer. CVE-2018-18339 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebAudio implementation. CVE-2018-18340 A use-after-free issue was discovered in the MediaRecorder implementation. CVE-2018-18341 cloudfuzzer discovered a buffer overflow issue in blink/webkit. CVE-2018-18342 Guang Gong discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2018-18343 Tran Tien Hung discovered a use-after-free issue in the skia library. CVE-2018-18344 Jann Horn discovered an error in the Extensions implementation. CVE-2018-18345 Masato Kinugawa and Jun Kokatsu discovered an error in the Site Isolation feature. CVE-2018-18346 Luan Herrera discovered an error in the user interface. CVE-2018-18347 Luan Herrera discovered an error in the Navigation implementation. CVE-2018-18348 Ahmed Elsobky discovered an error in the omnibox implementation. CVE-2018-18349 David Erceg discovered a policy enforcement error. CVE-2018-18350 Jun Kokatsu discovered a policy enforcement error. CVE-2018-18351 Jun Kokatsu discovered a policy enforcement error. CVE-2018-18352 Jun Kokatsu discovered an error in Media handling. CVE-2018-18353 Wenxu Wu discovered an error in the network authentication implementation. CVE-2018-18354 Wenxu Wu discovered an error related to integration with GNOME Shell. CVE-2018-18355 evil1m0 discovered a policy enforcement error. CVE-2018-18356 Tran Tien Hung discovered a use-after-free issue in the skia library. CVE-2018-18357 evil1m0 discovered a policy enforcement error. CVE-2018-18358 Jann Horn discovered a policy enforcement error. CVE-2018-18359 cyrilliu discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library. Several additional security relevant issues are also fixed in this update that have not yet received CVE identifiers.

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 71.0.3578.80-1~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.