Updated Chromium-browser packages are available for Debian

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3507-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
March 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : chromium-browser
CVE ID : CVE-2015-8126 CVE-2016-1630 CVE-2016-1631 CVE-2016-1632
CVE-2016-1633 CVE-2016-1634 CVE-2016-1635 CVE-2016-1636
CVE-2016-1637 CVE-2016-1638 CVE-2016-1639 CVE-2016-1640
CVE-2016-1641 CVE-2016-1642

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

CVE-2015-8126

Joerg Bornemann discovered multiple buffer overflow issues in the
libpng library.

CVE-2016-1630

Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy
in Blink/Webkit.

CVE-2016-1631

Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy
in the Pepper Plugin API.

CVE-2016-1632

A bad cast was discovered.

CVE-2016-1633

cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

CVE-2016-1634

cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

CVE-2016-1635

Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit.

CVE-2016-1636

A way to bypass SubResource Integrity validation was discovered.

CVE-2016-1637

Keve Nagy discovered an information leak in the skia library.

CVE-2016-1638

Rob Wu discovered a WebAPI bypass issue.

CVE-2016-1639

Khalil Zhani discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebRTC
implementation.

CVE-2016-1640

Luan Herrera discovered an issue with the Extensions user interface.

CVE-2016-1641

Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in the handling of
favorite icons.

CVE-2016-1642

The chrome 49 development team found and fixed various issues
during internal auditing. Also multiple issues were fixed in
the v8 javascript library, version 4.9.385.26.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 49.0.2623.75-1~deb8u1.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 49.0.2623.75-1.

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/