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Debian DSA-2192-1 Critical: Chromium Remote Access Threats

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2011
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Elevate your Debian experience by upgrading the chromium-browser to safeguard against multiple severe vulnerabilities, including those enabling remote code execution and service interruptions.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser

Summary


Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2011-0779

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 does not properly handle a missing key in an
extension, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash) via a crafted extension.

CVE-2011-1290

Integer overflow in WebKit allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, and
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011.


For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed
in version 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze4

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed
version 10.0.648.133~r77742-1


We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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Package: chromium-browser
CVE ID: CVE-2011-0779 CVE-2011-1290

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