SB2011050402 - Race condition in Debian Linux
Published: May 4, 2011 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011050402
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1444)
CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Race condition in the sandbox launcher implementation in Google Chrome before 11.0.696.57 on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=76542
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/04/chrome-stable-update.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2245
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67151
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14372