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CVE-2020-15999

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Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Vendor / Project
Google
Product
Chrome FreeType
Date added
Nov 3, 2021
Due date
Nov 17, 2021
Known ransomware use
Unknown
CWEs
CWE-787

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.

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