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Debian: DSA-4654-1 Critical: Chromium Buffer Overflow and Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2020
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Enhance your Debian Chromium setup to address significant concerns such as buffer overflow and use-after-free exploits.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

CVE-2020-6450

Man Yue Mo discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebAudio
implementation.

CVE-2020-6451

Man Yue Mo discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebAudio
implementation.

CVE-2020-6452

asnine discovered a buffer overflow issue.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), security support for chromium
has been discontinued.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 80.0.3987.162-1~deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium packages.

For the detailed security status of chromium please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/chromium

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: chromium
CVE ID: CVE-2020-6450 CVE-2020-6451 CVE-2020-6452

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