CVE detail

CVE-2020-15999 — Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.5063

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

99.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2021-11-17

Description

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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