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: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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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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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