Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,56.0.2924.67)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409923
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5017  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 56.0.2924.67 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Interactions with the OS in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Mac insufficiently cleared video memory, which allowed a remote attacker to possibly extract image fragments on systems with GeForce 8600M graphics chips via a crafted HTML page.

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