Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4330-1 chromium-browser -- security update

Date Reported:
02 Nov 2018
Affected Packages:
chromium-browser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-5179, CVE-2018-17462, CVE-2018-17463, CVE-2018-17464, CVE-2018-17465, CVE-2018-17466, CVE-2018-17467, CVE-2018-17468, CVE-2018-17469, CVE-2018-17470, CVE-2018-17471, CVE-2018-17473, CVE-2018-17474, CVE-2018-17475, CVE-2018-17476, CVE-2018-17477.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  • CVE-2018-5179

    Yannic Boneberger discovered an error in the ServiceWorker implementation.

  • CVE-2018-17462

    Ned Williamson and Niklas Baumstark discovered a way to escape the sandbox.

  • CVE-2018-17463

    Ned Williamson and Niklas Baumstark discovered a remote code execution issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2018-17464

    xisigr discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2018-17465

    Lin Zuojian discovered a use-after-free issue in the v8 javascript library.

  • CVE-2018-17466

    Omair discovered a memory corruption issue in the angle library.

  • CVE-2018-17467

    Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2018-17468

    Jams Lee discovered an information disclosure issue.

  • CVE-2018-17469

    Zhen Zhou discovered a buffer overflow issue in the pdfium library.

  • CVE-2018-17470

    Zhe Jin discovered a memory corruption issue in the GPU backend implementation.

  • CVE-2018-17471

    Lnyas Zhang discovered an issue with the full screen user interface.

  • CVE-2018-17473

    Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2018-17474

    Zhe Jin discovered a use-after-free issue.

  • CVE-2018-17475

    Vladimir Metnew discovered a URL spoofing issue.

  • CVE-2018-17476

    Khalil Zhani discovered an issue with the full screen user interface.

  • CVE-2018-17477

    Aaron Muir Hamilton discovered a user interface spoofing issue in the extensions pane.

This update also fixes a buffer overflow in the embedded lcms library included with chromium.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 70.0.3538.67-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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