Update Chromium to take advantage of important security updates
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The current Chromium package shipped with Ubuntu (Chromium 12) is badly out of date. This is particularly problematic because using old versions of browsers are missing critical security features. To pick one out, newer versions of Chromium ship with certificate pinning, which can be used to mitigate ongoing issues that keep arising with the present CA system underlying current PKI. See http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: chromium-browser 12.0.742.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
ChromiumPrefs:
browser/
extensions/
(no entry found in the Preferences file)
Date: Sun Sep 11 14:46:42 2011
Desktop-Session:
DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome
GNOME_
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/
XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/
DetectedPlugins: (no entry found in the Preferences file)
Env:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 834922, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.