content/renderer/device_sensors/device_orientation_event_pump.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly restrict...
Vulnerability Description
content/renderer/device_sensors/device_orientation_event_pump.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly restrict access to high-rate gyroscope data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain speech signals from a device's physical environment via a crafted web site that listens for ondeviceorientation events, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1231.
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References
- https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical-sessions/presentation/michalevsky
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463349
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