[DSA 3417-1] bouncycastle security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3417-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
December 14, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : bouncycastle
CVE ID : CVE-2015-7940
Debian Bug : 802671

Tibor Jager, Jörg Schwenk, and Juraj Somorovsky, from Horst Görtz
Institute for IT Security, published a paper in ESORICS 2015 where they
describe an invalid curve attack in Bouncy Castle Crypto, a Java library
for cryptography. An attacker is able to recover private Elliptic Curve
keys from different applications, for example, TLS servers.

More information:
http://web-in-security.blogspot.ca/2015/09/practical-invalid-curve-attacks.html
Practical Invalid Curve Attacks on TLS-ECDH:
http://euklid.org/pdf/ECC_Invalid_Curve.pdf

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.44+dfsg-3.1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.49+dfsg-3+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.51-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your bouncycastle packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

[DSA 3418-1] chromium-browser security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3418-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
December 14, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : chromium-browser
CVE ID : CVE-2015-6788 CVE-2015-6789 CVE-2015-6790 CVE-2015-6791

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

CVE-2015-6788

A type confusion issue was discovered in the handling of extensions.

CVE-2015-6789

cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue.

CVE-2015-6790

Inti De Ceukelaire discovered a way to inject HTML into
serialized web pages.

CVE-2015-6791

The chrome 47 development team found and fixed various issues
during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in
the v8 javascript library, version 4.7.80.23.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 47.0.2526.80-1~deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 47.0.2526.80-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chromium-browser packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/