CVE-2020-15999 — Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CISA KEV listed Added November 3, 2021 Remediate by 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.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

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

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