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CVE-2020-15999

🔥 Known Exploited (CISA KEV)CRITICAL
9.6
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score60.5380%
EPSS Percentile93.98th
Published2020-11-03
Last Modified2025-10-24
Data SourcesNVDCISA KEVFIRST.org EPSS

Vulnerability 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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦
Google

Chrome

< 86.0.4240.111
📦
Freetype

Freetype

>= 2.6.0 and < 2.10.4
💻
Debian

Debian Linux

= 10.0
💻
Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 31

References & Advisories

🔗 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/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04

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