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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-6109: Critical: chromium-browser security update (CESA-2018:1195)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 9, 2019
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

readAsText() can indefinitely read the file picked by the user, rather than only once at the time the file is picked in File API in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to access data on the user file system without explicit consent via a crafted HTML page.

Solutions

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