CVE-2020-15999
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 9.6 Critical
- Status
- Analyzed - chrome-cve-admin@google.com
- Published
- 2020-11-03
- Last modified
- 2025-10-21
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- since 2021-11-03, action due 2021-11-17: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120, CWE-787
Affected products
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Freetype (Freetype)
- Chrome (Google)
- Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility (Netapp)
- Backports Sle (Opensuse)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
- https://crbug.com/1139963
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMC…
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15999
