vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2017-5120: chromium-browser -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Sep 5, 2017 | Dec 5, 2017 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 5, 2017
Added
Dec 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
Inappropriate use of www mismatch redirects in browser navigation in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially downgrade HTTPS requests to HTTP via a crafted HTML page. In other words, Chrome could transmit cleartext even though the user had entered an https URL, because of a misdesigned workaround for cases where the domain name in a URL almost matches the domain name in an X.509 server certificate (but differs in the initial "www." substring).
Solution
debian-upgrade-chromium-browser
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