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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2013.0047
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
27 March 2013
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Google Chrome
Operating System: Windows
OS X
Linux variants
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction
Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2013-0926 CVE-2013-0925 CVE-2013-0924
CVE-2013-0923 CVE-2013-0922 CVE-2013-0921
CVE-2013-0920 CVE-2013-0919 CVE-2013-0918
CVE-2013-0917 CVE-2013-0916
Member content until: Friday, April 26 2013
OVERVIEW
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
prior to version 26.0.1410.43 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome
Frame. [1]
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following details regarding these
issues:
"[$1000] [172342] High CVE-2013-0916: Use-after-free in Web Audio.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[180909] Low CVE-2013-0917: Out-of-bounds read in URL loader. Credit
to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
[180555] Low CVE-2013-0918: Do not navigate dev tools upon drag and
drop. Credit to Vsevolod Vlasov of the Chromium development community.
[Linux only] [178760] Medium CVE-2013-0919: Use-after-free with pop-up
windows in extensions. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Mustafa
Emre Acer).
[177410] Medium CVE-2013-0920: Use-after-free in extension bookmarks
API. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Mustafa Emre Acer).
[174943] High CVE-2013-0921: Ensure isolated web sites run in their
own processes.
[174129] Low CVE-2013-0922: Avoid HTTP basic auth brute force
attempts. Credit to t3553r.
[169981] [169972] [169765] Medium CVE-2013-0923: Memory safety
issues in the USB Apps API. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team
(Mustafa Emre Acer).
[169632] Low CVE-2013-0924: Check an extensions permissions API
usage again file permissions. Credit to Benjamin Kalman of the
Chromium development community.
[168442] Low CVE-2013-0925: Avoid leaking URLs to extensions without
the tabs permissions. Credit to Michael Vrable of Google.
[112325] Medium CVE-2013-0926: Avoid pasting active tags in certain
situations. Credit to Subho Halder, Aditya Gupta, and Dev Kar of
xys3c (xysec.com)." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends updating to the latest version of Google Chrome
to correct these issues. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] Stable Channel Update
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/stable-channel-update_26.html
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