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Red Hat: CVE-2017-5020: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2017:0206)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 26, 2017
Added
Feb 3, 2017
Modified
Nov 8, 2023

Description

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, failed to require a user gesture for powerful download operations, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Solutions

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