Use After Free 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-UBUNTU2004-CHROMIUMBROWSER-610672
  • published23 Jun 2020
  • disclosed22 Jul 2020

Introduced: 23 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-6509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

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.

Use after free in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.116 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.