Debian Security Advisory DSA 2799-1 (chromium-browser - several vulnerabilities)

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Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2013-2931 The chrome 31 development team found various issues from internal fuzzing, audits, and other studies. CVE-2013-6621 Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in speech input handling. CVE-2013-6622cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in HTMLMediaElement. CVE-2013-6623miaubiz discovered an out-of-bounds read in the Blink/Webkit SVG implementation. CVE-2013-6624 Jon Butler discovered a use-after-free issue in id attribute strings. CVE-2013-6625cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the Blink/Webkit DOM implementation. CVE-2013-6626 Chamal de Silva discovered an address bar spoofing issue. CVE-2013-6627skylined discovered an out-of-bounds read in the HTTP stream parser. CVE-2013-6628 Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan of INRIA Paris discovered that a different (unverified) certificate could be used after successful TLS renegotiation with a valid certificate. CVE-2013-6629 Michal Zalewski discovered an uninitialized memory read in the libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo libraries. CVE-2013-6630 Michal Zalewski discovered another uninitialized memory read in the libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo libraries. CVE-2013-6631 Patrik Höglund discovered a use-free issue in the libjingle library. CVE-2013-6632 Pinkie Pie discovered multiple memory corruption issues.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 31.0.1650.57-1~deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 31.0.1650.57-1. 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
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
High Severity
Classification
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