CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-15999
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability — Google Chrome FreeType
Google Chrome uses FreeType, an open-source software library to render fonts, which contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function Load_SBit_Png when processing PNG images embedded into fonts. This vulnerability is part of an exploit chain with CVE-2020-17087 on Windows and CVE-2020-16010 on Android.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Remediation due
- 2021-11-17
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2020-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.6 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.6 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120, CWE-787
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 configurations
• google chrome (< 86.0.4240.111)
• freetype freetype (>= 2.6.0 < 2.10.4)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• opensuse backports sle 15.0
• netapp ontap select deploy administration utility
Related
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33 Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html Third Party Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1139963 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/ Release Notes
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33 Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html Third Party Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1139963 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/ Release Notes
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15999 US Government Resource