Bug 1625474 (CVE-2018-16072)

Summary: CVE-2018-16072 chromium-browser: Cross origin pixel leak in Chrome's interaction with Android's MediaPlayer
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sam Fowler <sfowler>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akarshan.biswas, mhroncok, tcallawa, tpopela, yaneti
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-05 03:49:18 UTC
A cross origin pixel leak flaw was found in the Chrome's interaction with Android's MediaPlayer component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=864283

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-09-05 04:04:17 UTC
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1625492]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625491]

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2018-09-10 07:57:24 UTC
As this flaw is related to Chrome interactions with the Android's MediaPlayer, this would not be applicable to Chromium builds on Linux.