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Red Hat: CVE-2017-5023: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2017:0206)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-5023: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2017:0206)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/03/2017
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Type confusion in Histogram in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit a near null dereference via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-chromium-browser
  • redhat-upgrade-chromium-browser-debuginfo

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