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Debian: DSA-2695-1 Critical: Chromium Browser Remote Issues

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2013
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Fedora recommends updating Firefox due to multiple critical vulnerabilities and possible attack vectors.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.
Multiple use-after-free, out-of-bounds read, memory safety, and
cross-site scripting issues were discovered and corrected.

CVE-2013-2837

Use-after-free vulnerability in the SVG implementation allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified
other impact via unknown vectors.

CVE-2013-2838

Google V8, as used in Chromium before 27.0.1453.93, allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read)
via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2013-2839

Chromium before 27.0.1453.93 does not properly perform a cast
of an unspecified variable during handling of clipboard data, which
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly
have other impact via unknown vectors.

CVE-2013-2840

Use-after-free vulnerability in the media loader in Chromium
before 27.0.1453.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service or possibly have unsp...

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Package: chromium-browser
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2837 CVE-2013-2838 CVE-2013-2839 CVE-2013-2840

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