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Debian: CVE-2019-5838: chromium -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-5838: chromium -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/27/2019
Created
10/24/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-chromium

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