Race condition in Debian Linux and Opensuse - CVE-2016-1670

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Race condition in Debian Linux and Opensuse - CVE-2016-1670

Published: May 15, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40286
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1670
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.

Race condition in the ResourceDispatcherHostImpl::BeginRequest function in content/browser/loader/resource_dispatcher_host_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 allows remote attackers to make arbitrary HTTP requests by leveraging access to a renderer process and reusing a request ID.


Affected software

Debian Linux
Opensuse
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
chromium-browser (Red Hat package)
chromium-browser-debuginfo (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2016-1670

Install update from vendor's website.

chromium-browser (Red Hat package) - update to 50.0.2661.102-1.el6
chromium-browser-debuginfo (Red Hat package) - update to 50.0.2661.102-1.el6

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