Information Exposure Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <54.0.2840.101-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-CHROMIUMBROWSER-411287
  • published19 Jan 2017
  • disclosed19 Jan 2017

Introduced: 19 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5201  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 chromium-browser to version 54.0.2840.101-1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.