[SECURITY] [DSA 3549-1] chromium-browser security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3549-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
April 15, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : chromium-browser
CVE ID : CVE-2016-1651 CVE-2016-1652 CVE-2016-1653 CVE-2016-1654
CVE-2016-1655 CVE-2016-1657 CVE-2016-1658 CVE-2016-1659

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

CVE-2016-1651

An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the pdfium library.

CVE-2016-1652

A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in extension bindings.

CVE-2016-1653

Choongwoo Han discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the v8
javascript library.

CVE-2016-1654

Atte Kettunen discovered an uninitialized memory read condition.

CVE-2016-1655

Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue related to extensions.

CVE-2016-1657

Luan Herrera discovered a way to spoof URLs.

CVE-2016-1658

Antonio Sanso discovered an information leak related to extensions.

CVE-2016-1659

The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during
internal auditing.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 50.0.2661.75-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 50.0.2661.75-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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