Race Condition Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <73.0.3683.75-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
33.05% (98th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-341012
- published 14 Mar 2019
- disclosed 23 May 2019
Introduced: 14 Mar 2019
CVE-2019-5796 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 73.0.3683.75-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
Data race in extensions guest view in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-5796
- https://crbug.com/918861
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5796
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
CVSS Scores
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