CVE-2015-6790 Information

Description

The WebPageSerializerImpl::openTagToString function in WebKit/Source/web/WebPageSerializerImpl.cpp in the page serializer in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.80 does not properly use HTML entities which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted document as demonstrated by a double-quote character inside a single-quoted string.

Reference

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_8.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00017.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2618.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3418 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78734 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2860-1 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=542054 https://codereview.chromium.org/1398453005 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09