CVE-2020-15999
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-03 00:00
Modified
2024-08-12 22:02
Severity ?
Summary
Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.htmlBroken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.htmlThird Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/1139963Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/Release Notes
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
GoogleChrome
CISA Known exploited vulnerability
Data from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2021-11-03

Due date: 2021-11-17

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999

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