Debian: DSA-3594-1 Critical: Chromium Browser Security Flaws
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June 4, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser
Topics Covered
Summary
CVE-2016-1696
A cross-origin bypass was found in the bindings to extensions.
CVE-2016-1697
Mariusz Mlynski discovered a cross-origin bypass in Blink/Webkit.
CVE-2016-1698
Rob Wu discovered an information leak.
CVE-2016-1699
Gregory Panakkal discovered an issue in the Developer Tools
feature.
CVE-2016-1700
Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in extensions.
CVE-2016-1701
Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in the autofill feature.
CVE-2016-1702
cloudfuzzer discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the skia
library.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 51.0.2704.79-1~deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 51.0.2704.79-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.
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Package: chromium-browser
CVE ID: CVE-2016-1696 CVE-2016-1697 CVE-2016-1698 CVE-2016-1699
Topics Covered
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