Access Restriction Bypass 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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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed27 Jan 2015
Introduced: 27 Jan 2015
CVE-2014-9646 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
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 Ubuntu.
Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the GoogleChromeDistribution::DoPostUninstallOperations function in installer/util/google_chrome_distribution.cc in the uninstall-survey feature in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory, as demonstrated by program.exe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1205.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9646
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=434964
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=449894
- https://codereview.chromium.org/741993002
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml