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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.

Published

2020-11-03T03:15:14.853

Last Modified

2025-10-24T20:57:27.670

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 9.6 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-787
Type: Secondary
CWE-120

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	google	chrome	< 86.0.4240.111	Yes
Application	freetype	freetype	< 2.10.4	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	10.0	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	31	Yes
Application	opensuse	backports_sle	15.0	Yes
Application	netapp	ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility	-	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33 Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://crbug.com/1139963 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/ Release Notes ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33 Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://crbug.com/1139963 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/ Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/ Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15999 US Government Resource (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)