Summary
The remote host is missing an update to chromium-browser announced via advisory DSA 2192-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202192-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2011-0779
Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 does not properly handle a missing key in an extension, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted extension.
CVE-2011-1290
Integer overflow in WebKit allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze4
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed version 10.0.648.133~r77742-1
We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-0779, CVE-2011-1290 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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