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alsa-2020:4952

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2020-11-05 08:26

Modified

2020-11-05 08:26

Summary

Important: freetype security update

Details

FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. FreeType loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently.

Security Fix(es):

freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png (CVE-2020-15999)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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  "id": "ALSA-2020:4952",
  "modified": "2020-11-05T08:26:43Z",
  "published": "2020-11-05T08:26:43Z",
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CVE-2020-15999 (GCVE-0-2020-15999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35

Summary

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.

Severity ?

9.6 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Heap buffer overflow

Assigner

Chrome

References

URL

Tags

	https://crbug.com/1139963
	https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/sta…
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12	vendor-advisory
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33	mailing-list
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04	vendor-advisory
	https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824	vendor-advisory
	https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-…
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Google	Chrome	Affected: unspecified , < 86.0.4240.111 (custom)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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