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Posted on 15 September 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3667-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
September 15, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : chromium-browser
CVE ID : CVE-2016-5170 CVE-2016-5171 CVE-2016-5172 CVE-2016-5173
CVE-2016-5174 CVE-2016-5175 CVE-2016-7395
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.
CVE-2016-5170
A use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink/Webkit.
CVE-2016-5171
Another use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink/Webkit.
CVE-2016-5172
Choongwoo Han discovered an information leak in the v8 javascript
library.
CVE-2016-5173
A resource bypass issue was discovered in extensions.
CVE-2016-5174
Andrey Kovalev discoved a way to bypass the popup blocker.
CVE-2016-5175
The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during
internal auditing.
CVE-2016-7395
An uninitialized memory read issue was discovered in the skia library.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 53.0.2785.113-1.
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
