Use After Free Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <79.0.3945.130-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-542679
- published 19 Jan 2020
- disclosed 11 Feb 2020
Introduced: 19 Jan 2020
CVE-2020-6379 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 79.0.3945.130-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 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.
Use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.130 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-6379
- https://crbug.com/1033407
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6379
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/
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