Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium-browser  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-611686
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed11 Dec 2019

Introduced: 11 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-5815  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

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.

Type confusion in xsltNumberFormatGetMultipleLevel prior to libxslt 1.1.33 could allow attackers to potentially exploit heap corruption via crafted XML data.