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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2019-5774 Insufficient validation of untrusted input in SafeBrowsing

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2019-5774 Insufficient validation of untrusted input in SafeBrowsing

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/19/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/25/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Omission of the .desktop filetype from the Safe Browsing checklist in SafeBrowsing in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to download a .desktop file to execute arbitrary code via a downloaded .desktop file.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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