[SECURITY] [DSA 2245-1] chromium-browser security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2245-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano
May 29, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : chromium-browser
Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-1292 CVE-2011-1293 CVE-2011-1440 CVE-2011-1444
CVE-2011-1797 CVE-2011-1799

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2011-1292

Use-after-free vulnerability in the frame-loader implementation in Google
Chrome allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly
have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

CVE-2011-1293

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLCollection implementation in Google
Chrome allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have
unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

CVE-2011-1440

Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors
related to the ruby element and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences.

CVE-2011-1444

Race condition in the sandbox launcher implementation in Google Chrome on
Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have
unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

CVE-2011-1797

Google Chrome does not properly render tables, which allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via
unknown vectors that lead to a "stale pointer."

CVE-2011-1799

Google Chrome does not properly perform casts of variables during interaction
with the WebKit engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 11.0.696.68~r84545-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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