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Despite usually being commended on the wiki page Install Additional Software Safely, installation of Chromium using APT is currently discouraged. This is because the Debian buster
version of Chromium is outdated and comes with security vulnerabilities which where reported being exploited in the wild. [1]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑
- https://forums.whonix.org/t/chromium-browser-for-kicksecure-discussions-not-whonix/10388/54
- https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/google_chrome_critical_updates/
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-patches-two-more-chrome-zero-days/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201109070427/https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16009
- https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=debian-security@lists.debian.org&q=subject:%22Is+chromium+updated%5C%3F%22&o=newest
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16013
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16017
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