Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3041-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 3041-1 – Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that the PPAPI implementation does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass sandbox protection mechanisms. Various other issues were also addressed.

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