Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-5350-1

USN-5350-1: Chromium vulnerability

Publication date

28 March 2022

Overview

Chromium could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted input.

Releases

18.04 LTS

Packages

chromium-browser - Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome

Details

It was discovered that Chromium incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	chromium-browser – 99.0.4844.84-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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References

CVE-2022-1096

CVE-2022-1096