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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-5081: Important: chromium-browser security update (CESA-2017:1399)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 27, 2017
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

Lack of verification of an extension's locale folder in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android, allowed an attacker with local write access to modify extensions by modifying extension files.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-chromium-browsercentos-upgrade-chromium-browser-debuginfo
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