Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2014-1730 A type confusion issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2014-1731 John Butler discovered a type confusion issue in the WebKit/Blink document object model implementation. CVE-2014-1732 Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the speech recognition feature. CVE-2014-1733 Jed Davis discovered a way to bypass the seccomp-bpf sandbox. CVE-2014-1734 The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues with potential security impact. CVE-2014-1735 The Google Chrome development team discovered and fixed multiple issues in version 3.24.35.33 of the v8 javascript library. CVE-2014-1736 SkyLined discovered an integer overlflow issue in the v8 javascript library.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.132-1~deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 34.0.1847.132-1. We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

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.

chromium-browser on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2920.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25