Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2245-1 chromium-browser -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
29 May 2011
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-1292, CVE-2011-1293, CVE-2011-1440, CVE-2011-1444, CVE-2011-1797, CVE-2011-1799.
More information:

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.