CVE-2020-16042

Summary

CVECVE-2020-16042
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-08 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionUninitialized Use in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-908

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop MISC chromereleases.googleblog.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
1151890 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail MISC crbug.com Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159685 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for firefox (ELSA-2020-5561-1)
  • 159687 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for firefox (ELSA-2020-5562-1)
  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 500938 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 500958 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 501622 Alpine Linux Security Update for mozjs78
  • 502377 Alpine Linux Security Update for thunderbird
  • 503843 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox
  • 690728 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for chromium (01ffd06a-36ed-11eb-b655-3065ec8fd3ec)
  • 750451 OpenSUSE Security Update for opera (openSUSE-SU-2020:2359-1)
  • 750452 OpenSUSE Security Update for opera (openSUSE-SU-2020:2360-1)
  • 750467 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:2325-1)
  • 750468 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2020:2324-1)
  • 750469 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2020:2317-1)
  • 750470 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2020:2318-1)
  • 750471 OpenSUSE Security Update for MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2020:2317-1)
  • 750499 OpenSUSE Security Update for chromium (openSUSE-SU-2020:2216-1)
  • 750512 OpenSUSE Security Update for chromium (openSUSE-SU-2020:2181-1)
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