Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1660

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3564-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                          Michael Gilbert
May 02, 2016                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : chromium-browser
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-1660 CVE-2016-1661 CVE-2016-1662 CVE-2016-1663
                 CVE-2016-1664 CVE-2016-1665 CVE-2016-1666

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

CVE-2016-1660

    Atte Kettunen discovered an out-of-bounds write issue.

CVE-2016-1661

    Wadih Matar discovered a memory corruption issue.

CVE-2016-1662

    Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue related to extensions.

CVE-2016-1663

    A use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink's bindings to V8.

CVE-2016-1664

    Wadih Matar discovered a way to spoof URLs.

CVE-2016-1665

    gksgudtjr456 discovered an information leak in the v8 javascript
    library.

CVE-2016-1666

    The chrome development team found and fixed various issues during
    internal auditing.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 50.0.2661.94-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 50.0.2661.94-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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