CVE-2020-15999

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15999
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-03 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-15 14:15:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap 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.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.929310000 probability, percentile 0.997720000 (date 2026-04-01)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2021-11-03; due 2021-11-17; ransomware use Unknown

Problem Types: CWE-787

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorGoogle
ProductChrome FreeType
NameGoogle Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
Noteshttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Application Freetype Freetype All All All All
Application Freetype Freetype2 All All All All
Application Freetype Freetype2 All All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 sp2 All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 sp2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202012-04) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop MISC chromereleases.googleblog.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1829-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: freetype-2.10.0-4.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4824-1 chromium DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Opera: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202401-19) — Gentoo security security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: freetype-2.10.0-4.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Project Zero: CVE-2020-15999: FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow in Load_SBit_Png MISC googleprojectzero.blogspot.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: TCMalloc viewer/dumper - TCMalloc Inspector Tool FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
1139963 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail MISC crbug.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202011-12) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296070 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 28.82.3 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 354305 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for freetype : ALAS2022-2022-033
  • 354399 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for freetype : ALAS2022-2022-154
  • 355187 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for freetype : ALAS2023-2023-074
  • 376909 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for freetype (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0175)
  • 500188 Alpine Linux Security Update for freetype
  • 500937 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 500957 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 502376 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503842 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 503929 Alpine Linux Security Update for freetype
  • 504804 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 505444 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 690387 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for freetype2 (458df97f-1440-11eb-aaec-e0d55e2a8bf9)
  • 690393 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for chromium (f4722927-1375-11eb-8711-3065ec8fd3ec)
  • 710836 Gentoo Linux Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202401-19)
  • 750472 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:2315-1)
  • 750511 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2020:2187-1)
  • 750538 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2020:2096-1)
  • 750563 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:2031-1)
  • 750570 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:2020-1)
  • 750593 OpenSUSE Security Update for opera (openSUSE-SU-2020:1952-1)
  • 750950 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-CairoSVG, python-Pillow (openSUSE-SU-2021:1134-1)
  • 900615 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for freetype (8321)
  • 901598 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for freetype (8324-1)
  • 940232 AlmaLinux Security Update for freetype (ALSA-2020:4952)
  • 960223 Rocky Linux Security Update for freetype (RLSA-2020:4952)
  • 982958 Dotnet (nuget) Security Update for CefSharp.Wpf.HwndHost (GHSA-pv36-h7jh-qm62)
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