Bug 1577113 – CVE-2018-6121 chromium-browser: Privilege Escalation in extensions

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Bug 1577113 - (CVE-2018-6121) CVE-2018-6121 chromium-browser: Privilege Escalation in extensions

Summary:	CVE-2018-6121 chromium-browser: Privilege Escalation in extensions

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2018-6121

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1577116 1577117 1577118 1577119
Blocks:	1577120
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Reported:	2018-05-11 04:39 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-05-14 15:36 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	chromium-browser 66.0.3359.170
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1446	None	None	None	2018-05-14 14:50 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2018-05-11 04:39:34 EDT

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the extensions component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=836858

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-05-11 04:40:32 EDT

Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1577116]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1577119]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 14:50:45 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:1446 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1446

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