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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-5350-1 High Severity: Chromium Code Exec Risk

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical security flaw in Firefox mandates urgent patching on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to enhance protection against potential risks.
Chromium could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted input.

Summary

Chromium could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially

crafted input.

Software Description:

- chromium-browser: Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome

Details:

It was discovered that Chromium incorrectly handled certain inputs.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update high severity arbitrary code execution Ubuntu chromium execution

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  chromium-browser                99.0.4844.84-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5350-1

CVE-2022-1096

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March 28, 2022

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update high severity arbitrary code execution Ubuntu chromium execution

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/99.0.4844.84-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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