** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Micah Gersten (micahg)
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1081518
Title:
Chromium-browser package is outdated and poses a security risk
Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
The current chromium-browser version in 12.04 is outdated
(http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/chromium-browser is at version 18 when
current version is 23).
That were most probably security vulnerabilities that where fixed between
these 2 versions, which Ubuntu chromium-browser users are still vulnerable to.
The Quantal package is at version 22:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/chromium-browser
I see that the firefox package keeps the same version betweeen Precise and
Quantal, since running an outdated browser version has security implications.
The same logic should be applied to chromium-browser.
Futhermore; there is a (formerly) "official" PPA at
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa that used to maintain the
latest version of each channel. This PPA is no longer maintained and according
to the Chromium team's support IRC channel, it won't be maintained in the near
future.
I believe it is best to delete this PPA, to avoid users thinking that their
browsers are up-to-date when they are not.
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