Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3267-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
22 May 2015
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1251, CVE-2015-1252, CVE-2015-1253, CVE-2015-1254, CVE-2015-1255, CVE-2015-1256, CVE-2015-1257, CVE-2015-1258, CVE-2015-1259, CVE-2015-1260, CVE-2015-1261, CVE-2015-1262, CVE-2015-1263, CVE-2015-1264, CVE-2015-1265.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2015-1251

    SkyLined discovered a use-after-free issue in speech recognition.

  • CVE-2015-1252

    An out-of-bounds write issue was discovered that could be used to escape from the sandbox.

  • CVE-2015-1253

    A cross-origin bypass issue was discovered in the DOM parser.

  • CVE-2015-1254

    A cross-origin bypass issue was discovered in the DOM editing feature.

  • CVE-2015-1255

    Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in WebAudio.

  • CVE-2015-1256

    Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in the SVG implementation.

  • CVE-2015-1257

    miaubiz discovered an overflow issue in the SVG implementation.

  • CVE-2015-1258

    cloudfuzzer discovered an invalid size parameter used in the libvpx library.

  • CVE-2015-1259

    Atte Kettunen discovered an uninitialized memory issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2015-1260

    Khalil Zhani discovered multiple use-after-free issues in chromium's interface to the WebRTC library.

  • CVE-2015-1261

    Juho Nurminen discovered a URL bar spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2015-1262

    miaubiz discovered the use of an uninitialized class member in font handling.

  • CVE-2015-1263

    Mike Ruddy discovered that downloading the spellcheck dictionary was not done over HTTPS.

  • CVE-2015-1264

    K0r3Ph1L discovered a cross-site scripting issue that could be triggered by bookmarking a site.

  • CVE-2015-1265

    The chrome 43 development team found and fixed various issues during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in the libv8 library, version 4.3.61.21.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 43.0.2357.65-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 43.0.2357.65-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.