Bug 1577113 (CVE-2018-6121) - CVE-2018-6121 chromium-browser: Privilege Escalation in extensions
Summary: CVE-2018-6121 chromium-browser: Privilege Escalation in extensions
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-6121
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1577116 1577117 1577118 1577119
Blocks: 1577120
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-11 08:39 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:20 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: chromium-browser 66.0.3359.170
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Last Closed: 2018-05-14 19:36:37 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1446 0 None None None 2018-05-14 18:50:50 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2018-05-11 08:39:34 UTC 
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 08:40:32 UTC 
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1577116]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1577119]
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-14 18:50:45 UTC 
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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