Bug 1885899 (CVE-2020-15978)

Summary:	CVE-2020-15978 chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in navigation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	msiddiqu
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, spotrh, tpopela, yaneti
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	chromium-browser 86.0.4240.75	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2020-10-13 14:21:56 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1885915, 1885916, 1885917
Bug Blocks:	1885919

Description msiddiqu 2020-10-07 09:25:32 UTC

An insufficient data validation flaw was found in the navigation component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1116280

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-10-07 09:41:19 UTC

Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1885917]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1885916]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-10-13 08:22:31 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2020:4235 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4235

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-10-13 14:21:56 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-15978

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2020-11-09 12:49:34 UTC

Note that the additional info included in the CVE description, but not included on the Chrome announcement page, indicates that this only affected Google Chrome on Android.