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FreeBSD: VID-9118961B-9FA5-11E6-A265-3065EC8FD3EC (CVE-2016-5191): chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-9118961B-9FA5-11E6-A265-3065EC8FD3EC (CVE-2016-5191): chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

Bookmark handling in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android had insufficient validation of supplied data, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages, as demonstrated by an interpretation conflict between userinfo and scheme in an http://javascript:payload@example.com URL.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-chromium
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-chromium-npapi
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-chromium-pulse

References

  • CVE-2016-5191
  • DSA-3731

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