On Debian stable, I have chromium Version: 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3

From Arch advisory on 2020-10-10:

The package chromium before version 86.0.4240.75-1 is vulnerable to
multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, access restriction
bypass, information disclosure and insufficient validation. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-security/2020-October/001608.html

Is Debian's chromium vulnerable now?

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Hi,

17 oct. 2020 à 14:28 de [email protected]:

On Debian stable, I have chromium Version: 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3

From Arch advisory on 2020-10-10:

The package chromium before version 86.0.4240.75-1 is vulnerable to
multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, access restriction bypass, information disclosure and insufficient validation. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-security/2020-October/001608.html

Is Debian's chromium vulnerable now?

I would say yes for the time being indeed: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/chromium
See "vulnerable" in 2nd column for CVE-2020-15967 to CVE-2020-15992 + CVE-2020-6557

Best regards,
l0f4r0

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https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/google_chrome_critical_updates/

Wed 4 Nov 2020
If you're an update laggard, buck up: Chrome zero-days are being
exploited in the wild

Desktop and Android versions both at risk

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:31 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

17 oct. 2020 à 14:28 de [email protected]:

On Debian stable, I have chromium Version: 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3

From Arch advisory on 2020-10-10:

The package chromium before version 86.0.4240.75-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, access restriction bypass, information disclosure and insufficient validation. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-security/2020-October/001608.html

Is Debian's chromium vulnerable now?

I would say yes for the time being indeed: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/chromium
See "vulnerable" in 2nd column for CVE-2020-15967 to CVE-2020-15992 + CVE-2020-6557

Best regards,
l0f4r0

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Hi Georgi Guninski,

what is your opinion, what should Linux users use for their daily work?
Firefox becomes more and more buggier, Chromium project doesn't provide binaries for any OS.

Kind regards
Georgi

On 11/8/20 7:50 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/google_chrome_critical_updates/

Wed 4 Nov 2020
If you're an update laggard, buck up: Chrome zero-days are being
exploited in the wild

Desktop and Android versions both at risk

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:31 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

17 oct. 2020 à 14:28 de [email protected]:

On Debian stable, I have chromium Version: 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3

From Arch advisory on 2020-10-10:

The package chromium before version 86.0.4240.75-1 is vulnerable to
multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, access restriction
bypass, information disclosure and insufficient validation.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-security/2020-October/001608.html

Is Debian's chromium vulnerable now?

I would say yes for the time being indeed: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/chromium
See "vulnerable" in 2nd column for CVE-2020-15967 to CVE-2020-15992 + CVE-2020-6557

Best regards,
l0f4r0

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On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:31 PM Georgi Naplatanov <[email protected]> wrote:

Chromium project doesn't provide
binaries for any OS.

Aren't these trustworthy daily builds?:

https://download-chromium.appspot.com/

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Hi,

8 nov. 2020 à 18:50 de [email protected]:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/google_chrome_critical_updates/

Wed 4 Nov 2020
If you're an update laggard, buck up: Chrome zero-days are being
exploited in the wild

Desktop and Android versions both at risk

Thanks Georgi for the link.

Regarding CVE-2020-16009 <https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-16009>, it seems that some distros like Arch [1] have already updated their chromium packages but no Debian yet. Right?

Is it just a matter of extracting the security fix from 86.0.4240.183, packaging it accordingly and pushing in a new version in Debian repositories?

For Buster, will it lead eventually to a 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10uX or a 86.0.4240.183~deb10uX version instead?

Thanks in advance & Best regards,
l0f4r0

[1] : https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-16009

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You can follow debian's progress on this here:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16009

On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 20:46 +0100, [email protected] wrote:

Regarding CVE-2020-16009 <https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-16009>, it seems that some distros like Arch [1] have already updated their chromium packages but no Debian yet. Right?

Is it just a matter of extracting the security fix from 86.0.4240.183, packaging it accordingly and pushing in a new version in Debian repositories?

For Buster, will it lead eventually to a 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10uX or a 86.0.4240.183~deb10uX version instead?

Thanks in advance & Best regards,
l0f4r0

[1] : https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-16009

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 2:15 AM Lou Poppler <[email protected]> wrote:

You can follow debian's progress on this here:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16009

Hi, thanks for the link.
I think your advice is incomplete and we should monitor
the union of all vulnerabilities and CVEs, not just one. There was similar
link in this thread, check it.

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 9:46 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Regarding CVE-2020-16009 <https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-16009>, it seems that some distros like Arch [1] have already updated their chromium packages but no Debian yet. Right?

Right.

Is it just a matter of extracting the security fix from 86.0.4240.183, packaging it accordingly and pushing in a new version in Debian repositories?

There are more than one vulnerabilities to fix.

I have about 10 years experience consulting Mozilla for
their browsers and I recommend Debian to update to
the closest to Chromium stable. Definitely not all security
bugs get CVE and some CVEs are "multiple vulnerabilities in X".

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So debian are distributing vulnerable Chromium since nearly
a month? There is exploit (not sure about which OSes) in the
wild.

Debian are not commenting on this on this mailing list.

Right?

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On 17.10.20 14:28, Georgi Guninski wrote:

Is Debian's chromium vulnerable now?

Yes. The Team maintaining Chromium in Debian is clearly overloaded and understaffed and I am sure the Corona Crisis isn't helping here.

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I'm sorry for jumping in; just wanted to mention that other packages are vulnerable in stable/testing/sid/oldstable. BUT we should not forget to
say a THANK YOU to these guys which give their best in order all of us
to use this OS for free ;-)

Regards

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On 11/13/20 10:01 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:

On 17.10.20 14:28, Georgi Guninski wrote:

Is Debian's chromium vulnerable now?

Yes. The Team maintaining Chromium in Debian is clearly overloaded and understaffed and I am sure the Corona Crisis isn't helping here.

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Hello,

Pavlos Ponos (Fri 2020-11-13 10:20:36 +0200) :

BUT we should not forget to say a THANK YOU to these guys

and gals

which give their best in order all of us to use this OS for free ;-)

I was about to write the same thing: a big thank you to all
volunteers.

--
Emmanuel

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Hi,

some brain storming: what about working together with the LinuxMint
people, they just got a dedicated compiling machine, just for getting
updated Chromium for LMDE in time:

http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debbie

Consolidating resources might do the trick here,

Kind regards, Joerg.

On 11/13/20 9:31 AM, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:

Hello,

Pavlos Ponos (Fri 2020-11-13 10:20:36 +0200) :

BUT we should not forget to say a THANK YOU to these guys

and gals

which give their best in order all of us to use this OS for free ;-)

I was about to write the same thing: a big thank you to all
volunteers.

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:21 AM Pavlos Ponos <[email protected]> wrote:

BUT we should not forget to say a THANK YOU to these guys which give their best in order all of us to use this OS for free ;-)

I believe I am debian contributor too, search in google for:
"georgi guninski" site:debian.org

Definitely won't say "thank you" to some entity which gives
me long unpatched important component like a web browser.

It is like saying "thank you" to someone who gives
you free licensed Windows XP, lol.

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Hi,

13 nov. 2020 à 11:06 de [email protected]:

Definitely won't say "thank you" to some entity which gives
me long unpatched important component like a web browser.

I confess that having an unpatched browser is really not recommended because of all exploits that could happen on the fly (the browser is a really exposed component by nature).

However, everyone is free to contribute, provide help or simply choose another package, maybe more maintained...

9 nov. 2020 à 17:30 de [email protected]:

what is your opinion, what should Linux users use for their daily work? Firefox becomes more and more buggier, Chromium project doesn't provide binaries for any OS.

Why not using Vivaldi browser then?
It comes with its own repo and updates are released regularly.
This is not 100% open source, true, but it's really functional & customisable. I've been using it for 1 year on Linux/macOS/Windows and heard/read almost only good feedbacks.

Best regards,
l0f4r0

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