Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium-browser (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed14 May 2016
Introduced: 14 May 2016
CVE-2016-1671 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.
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.
Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename_util.cc.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1671
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90584
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1704163003/
- https://crbug.com/586657
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/message/raw?msg=chromium-reviews/UkMGbbnTDW8/A4g-6YkfBAAJ
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035872