Bug 1702906 (CVE-2019-5816)

Summary:	CVE-2019-5816 chromium-browser: Exploit persistence extension on Android
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	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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Bug Blocks:	1702925

Description Andrej Nemec 2019-04-25 07:54:05 UTC

The following flaw was identified in the Chromium browser: Exploit persistence extension on Android.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=940245

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2019-04-25 07:57:54 UTC

Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1702916]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1702915]

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2019-04-25 08:54:12 UTC

Upstream description indicates this problem only affected Chrome versions on Android and hence is not applicable to Linux builds.