Debian Security Advisory DSA 2905-1 (chromium-browser - security update)

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Summary
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2014-1716 A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2014-1717 An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2014-1718 Aaron Staple discovered an integer overflow issue in chromium's software compositor. CVE-2014-1719 Colin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in the web workers implementation. CVE-2014-1720 cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the Blink/Webkit document object model implementation. CVE-2014-1721 Christian Holler discovered a memory corruption issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2014-1722 miaubiz discovered a use-after-free issue in block rendering. CVE-2014-1723 George McBay discovered a url spoofing issue. CVE-2014-1724 Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in freebsoft's libspeechd library. Because of this issue, the text-to-speech feature is now disabled by default ('--enable-speech-dispatcher' at the command-line can re-enable it). CVE-2014-1725 An out-of-bounds read was discovered in the base64 implementation. CVE-2014-1726 Jann Horn discovered a way to bypass the same origin policy. CVE-2014-1727 Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the web color chooser implementation. CVE-2014-1728 The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues with potential security impact. CVE-2014-1729 The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 3.24.35.22 of the v8 javascript library.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.116-1~deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.116-1. 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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