Race Condition Affecting chromium package, versions [,61.0.3163.113)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410107
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

CVE-2017-15405  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 61.0.3163.113 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. Inappropriate symlink handling and a race condition in the stateful recovery feature implementation could lead to a persistance established by a malicious code running with root privileges in cryptohomed in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

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