Debian DSA-3564-1 Critical: Browser Memory Corruption Threats
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May 2, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser
Topics Covered
Summary
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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
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Package: chromium-browser
CVE ID: CVE-2016-1660 CVE-2016-1661 CVE-2016-1662 CVE-2016-1663
Topics Covered
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