cve-2019-13726
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-12-10 21:01
Modified
2024-08-05 00:05
Severity ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in password manager in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00032.htmlBroken Link
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00036.htmlBroken Link
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4238Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlVendor Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/1027152Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Z5M4FPUMDNX2LDPHJKN5ZV5GIS2AKNU/
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N5CIQCVS6E3ULJCNU7YJXJPO2BLQZDTK/
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/27Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4606Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00032.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00036.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4238Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/1027152Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Z5M4FPUMDNX2LDPHJKN5ZV5GIS2AKNU/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N5CIQCVS6E3ULJCNU7YJXJPO2BLQZDTK/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/27Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4606Third Party Advisory
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