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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2011.0180 chromium-browser security update 17 February 2011 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: chromium-browser Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 6 Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction Reduced Security -- Unknown/Unspecified Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2011-0985 CVE-2011-0984 CVE-2011-0983 CVE-2011-0981 CVE-2011-0783 CVE-2011-0778 CVE-2011-0777 Reference: ASB-2011.0014.2 ASB-2011.0009 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2166 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2166-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano February 16, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : chromium-browser Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2011-0777 CVE-2011-0778 CVE-2011-0783 CVE-2011-0983 CVE-2011-0981 CVE-2011-0984 CVE-2011-0985 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2011-0777 Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to image loading CVE-2011-0778 Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 does not properly restrict drag and drop operations, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via unspecified vectors CVE-2011-0783 Unspecified vulnerability in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving a "bad volume setting." CVE-2011-0983 Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly handle anonymous blocks, 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-2011-0981 Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly perform event handling for animations, 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-2011-0984 Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly handle plug-ins, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors CVE-2011-0985 Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly perform process termination upon memory exhaustion, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze2 For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.0.597.98~r74359-1 We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages. 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