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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-5106): chromium-browser vulnerability

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Oct 27, 2017

Added

Nov 19, 2024

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-chromium-browser

References

CVE-2017-5106
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-5106
CWE-20
EUVD-EUVD-2017-14215
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-14215
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5106

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