CVE-2020-15999

UNKNOWNKnown Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999

Remediation deadline: November 17, 2021

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.

Timeline

Published:November 3rd, 2021 12:00 AM

Last modified:November 3rd, 2021 12:00 AM

Added to KEV:November 3rd, 2021

CVSS Scoring

No CVSS v3 score available

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

Google

Products

Chrome FreeType

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

No references available.

Source: CISA KEV + NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute