Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-482492
- published 23 Oct 2019
- disclosed 25 Nov 2019
Introduced: 23 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-13702 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 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.
Inappropriate implementation in installer in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted executable.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-13702
- https://crbug.com/991125
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13702
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_22.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00008.html
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