Race Condition Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <69.0.3497.81-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.53% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-412891
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 9 Jan 2019
Introduced: 25 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16079 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
chromium-browser
to version 69.0.3497.81-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 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.
A race condition between permission prompts and navigations in Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16079
- https://crbug.com/723503
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16079
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-10
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2666
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105215