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chromium-browser: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in SafeBrowsing

Published Feb 19, 2019

Description

Omission of the .desktop filetype from the Safe Browsing checklist in SafeBrowsing in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to download a .desktop file to execute arbitrary code via a downloaded .desktop file.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Chrome
Published Feb 19, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 9, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jan 29, 2019