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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2245-1] chromium-browser security update

    From Giuseppe Iuculano@1:229/2 to All on Sun May 29 13:10:03 2011
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2245-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano
    May 29, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : chromium-browser
    Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2011-1292 CVE-2011-1293 CVE-2011-1440 CVE-2011-1444
    CVE-2011-1797 CVE-2011-1799


    Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser.
    The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
    following problems:


    CVE-2011-1292

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the frame-loader implementation in Google
    Chrome allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly
    have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.


    CVE-2011-1293

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLCollection implementation in Google
    Chrome allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have
    unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.


    CVE-2011-1440

    Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome allows remote attackers to cause
    a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors
    related to the ruby element and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences.


    CVE-2011-1444

    Race condition in the sandbox launcher implementation in Google Chrome on
    Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have
    unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.


    CVE-2011-1797

    Google Chrome does not properly render tables, which allows remote attackers
    to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via
    unknown vectors that lead to a "stale pointer."


    CVE-2011-1799

    Google Chrome does not properly perform casts of variables during interaction
    with the WebKit engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
    service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.



    For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze5.

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

    For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
    version 11.0.696.68~r84545-1.

    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: http://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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