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CVE-2020-15999
medium
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.
From the Tenable Blog
CVE-2020-15999, CVE-2020-17087: Google Chrome FreeType and Microsoft Windows Kernel Zero Days Exploited in the Wild
Published: 2020-11-02
A pair of zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome (CVE-2020-15999) and Microsoft Windows (CVE-2020-17087) were chained together and exploited in the wild in targeted attacks. A separate Chrome vulnerability (CVE-2020-16009) has also been exploited in the wild.
References
https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2020-threat-landscape-retrospective
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html