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Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <55.0.2883.75-1~deb8u1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-CHROMIUMBROWSER-413601
  • published18 Dec 2016
  • disclosed18 Dec 2016
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Introduced: 18 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-5191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 chromium-browser to version 55.0.2883.75-1~deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:payload@example.com URL.