CVE-2020-15999
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.6 Critical
- Published
- Nov 3, 2020
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 27, 2020
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.6 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ChromeGoogle |
|
References
- https://crbug.com/1139963
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1829vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2020-6b35849eddvendor-advisory
- GLSA-202011-12vendor-advisory
- 20201118 TCMalloc viewer/dumper - TCMalloc Inspector Toolmailing-list
- GLSA-202012-04vendor-advisory
- DSA-4824vendor-advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
- GLSA-202401-19vendor-advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15999government-resource
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