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Another chromium-browser update has been released for Debian



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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3315-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
July 23, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : chromium-browser
CVE ID : CVE-2015-1266 CVE-2015-1267 CVE-2015-1268 CVE-2015-1269
CVE-2015-1270 CVE-2015-1271 CVE-2015-1272 CVE-2015-1273
CVE-2015-1274 CVE-2015-1276 CVE-2015-1277 CVE-2015-1278
CVE-2015-1279 CVE-2015-1280 CVE-2015-1281 CVE-2015-1282
CVE-2015-1283 CVE-2015-1284 CVE-2015-1285 CVE-2015-1286
CVE-2015-1287 CVE-2015-1288 CVE-2015-1289

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser.

CVE-2015-1266

Intended access restrictions could be bypassed for certain URLs like
chrome://gpu.

CVE-2015-1267

A way to bypass the Same Origin Policy was discovered.

CVE-2015-1268

Mariusz Mlynski also discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy.

CVE-2015-1269

Mike Rudy discovered that hostnames were not properly compared in the
HTTP Strict Transport Policy and HTTP Public Key Pinning features,
which could allow those access restrictions to be bypassed.

CVE-2015-1270

Atte Kettunen discovered an uninitialized memory read in the ICU library.

CVE-2015-1271

cloudfuzzer discovered a buffer overflow in the pdfium library.

CVE-2015-1272

Chamal de Silva discovered race conditions in the GPU process
implementation.

CVE-2015-1273

makosoft discovered a buffer overflow in openjpeg, which is used by
the pdfium library embedded in chromium.

CVE-2015-1274

andrewm.bpi discovered that the auto-open list allowed certain file
types to be executed immediately after download.

CVE-2015-1276

Colin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in the IndexedDB
implementation.

CVE-2015-1277

SkyLined discovered a use-after-free issue in chromium's accessibility
implementation.

CVE-2015-1278

Chamal de Silva discovered a way to use PDF documents to spoof a URL.

CVE-2015-1279

mlafon discovered a buffer overflow in the pdfium library.

CVE-2015-1280

cloudfuzzer discovered a memory corruption issue in the SKIA library.

CVE-2015-1281

Masato Knugawa discovered a way to bypass the Content Security
Policy.

CVE-2015-1282

Chamal de Silva discovered multiple use-after-free issues in the
pdfium library.

CVE-2015-1283

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered a buffer overflow in the expat
library.

CVE-2015-1284

Atte Kettunen discovered that the maximum number of page frames
was not correctly checked.

CVE-2015-1285

gazheyes discovered an information leak in the XSS auditor,
which normally helps to prevent certain classes of cross-site
scripting problems.

CVE-2015-1286

A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in the interface to
the v8 javascript library.

CVE-2015-1287

filedescriptor discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy.

CVE-2015-1288

Mike Ruddy discovered that the spellchecking dictionaries could
still be downloaded over plain HTTP (related to CVE-2015-1263).

CVE-2015-1289

The chrome 44 development team found and fixed various issues
during internal auditing.

In addition to the above issues, Google disabled the hotword extension
by default in this version, which if enabled downloads files without
the user's intervention.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 44.0.2403.89-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 44.0.2403.89-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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/