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Debian: CVE-2019-5879: chromium -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-5879: chromium -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/12/2019
Created
11/13/2019
Added
11/12/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-chromium

References

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