CVE-2020-15999 (GCVE-0-2020-15999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35
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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
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Vendor Product Version
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 86.0.4240.111 (custom)
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