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Red Hat: CVE-2019-5768: Critical: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2019:0309)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-5768: Critical: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2019:0309)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/11/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/12/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

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

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