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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-15973: Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-15973: Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/17/2020
Created
10/19/2020
Added
10/19/2020
Modified
01/04/2021

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass same origin policy via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-chromium
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-google-chrome

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