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Posted on 15 April 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3549-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
April 15, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
