vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-6179: Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 22, 2018
Added
Aug 23, 2018
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

Insufficient enforcement of file access permission in the activeTab case in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-chromiumgentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-google-chrome
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