Memory leak in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6179

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Memory leak in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6179

Published: July 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14059
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6179
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to local file information leak in Extensions A local attacker can gain access to arbitrary data.

Affected software

Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6179

Update to version 68.0.3440.75.

Google Chrome - update to 68.0.3440.75
chromium - addressed in versions 68.0.3440.106-3.el7, 68.0.3440.106-3.fc27, 68.0.3440.106-3.fc28

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