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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

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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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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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