Debian Security Advisory DSA 2706-1 (chromium-browser - several vulnerabilities)

Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. CVE-2013-2855 The Developer Tools API in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. CVE-2013-2856 Use-after-free vulnerability in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the handling of input. CVE-2013-2857 Use-after-free vulnerability in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the handling of images. CVE-2013-2858 Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTML5 Audio implementation in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. CVE-2013-2859 Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and trigger namespace pollution via unspecified vectors. CVE-2013-2860 Use-after-free vulnerability in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving access to a database API by a worker process. CVE-2013-2861 Use-after-free vulnerability in the SVG implementation in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. CVE-2013-2862 Skia, as used in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110, does not properly handle GPU acceleration, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. CVE-2013-2863 Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 does not properly handle SSL sockets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors. CVE-2013-2865 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Chromium before 27.0.1453.110 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 27.0.1453.110-1~deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 27.0.1453.110-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 27.0.1453.110-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.
Insight
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web.
Affected
chromium-browser on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References