CVE record
CVE-2020-15999
Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
critical
CVSS 9.6 · CVSS_V3
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Product
- Chrome FreeType
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Nov 17, 2021
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-787
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.