Bug 1688195 (CVE-2019-5793)

Summary:	CVE-2019-5793 chromium-browser: Excessive permissions for private API in Extensions
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erack, tcallawa, tpopela, yaneti
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	chromium-browser 73.0.3683.75	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-04-09 20:27:21 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1688207, 1688208, 1688209
Bug Blocks:	1688211

Description Andrej Nemec 2019-03-13 11:01:56 UTC

An excessive permissions for private api flaw was found in the Extensions component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=937487

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2019-03-13 11:06:08 UTC

Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1688209]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1688208]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2019-04-08 07:48:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2019:0708 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0708