Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2014-3154 Collin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in the filesystem API. CVE-2014-3155 James March, Daniel Sommermann, and Alan Frindell discovered several out-of-bounds read issues in the SPDY protocol implementation. CVE-2014-3156 Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow issue in bitmap handling in the clipboard implementation. CVE-2014-3157 A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in chromium's ffmpeg media filter. In addition, this version corrects a regression in the previous update. Support for older i386 processors had been dropped. This functionality is now restored.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1. For the testing (jessie) and unstable (sid) distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 35.0.1916.153-1. 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-2959.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25