Information Exposure Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <66.0.3359.139-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-407548
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 9 Jan 2019
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-6109 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
chromium-browser
to version 66.0.3359.139-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 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.
readAsText() can indefinitely read the file picked by the user, rather than only once at the time the file is picked in File API in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to access data on the user file system without explicit consent via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6109
- https://crbug.com/710190
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4182
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6109
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-22
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1195
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103917