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Debian: DSA-3456-1 Moderate: Chromium Browser Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2016
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Update the chromium-browser in Debian to address several vulnerabilities highlighted in the latest security bulletin.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser

Summary

CVE-2015-6792

An issue was found in the handling of MIDI files.

CVE-2016-1612

cloudfuzzer discovered a logic error related to receiver
compatibility in the v8 javascript library.

CVE-2016-1613

A use-after-free issue was discovered in the pdfium library.

CVE-2016-1614

Christoph Diehl discovered an information leak in Webkit/Blink.

CVE-2016-1615

Ron Masas discovered a way to spoof URLs.

CVE-2016-1616

Luan Herrera discovered a way to spoof URLs.

CVE-2016-1617

jenuis discovered a way to discover whether an HSTS web site had
been visited.

CVE-2016-1618

Aaron Toponce discovered the use of weak random number generator.

CVE-2016-1619

Keve Nagy discovered an out-of-bounds-read issue in the pdfium library.

CVE-2016-1620

The chrome 48 development team found and fixed various issues
during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in
the v8 javascript library, version 4.7.271.17.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
ver...

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Package: chromium-browser
CVE ID: CVE-2015-6792 CVE-2016-1612 CVE-2016-1613 CVE-2016-1614

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