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clayton@site:~/news$ cat cve-2020-15999-google-chrome-freetype.log

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

2021-11-03 • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability


[event] 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.

> AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Field Value
Vendor Google
Product Chrome FreeType
CWE CWE-787
CVE ID CVE-2020-15999
Date Added 2021-11-03
Due Date 2021-11-17
Ransomware Campaign Unknown

> MITIGATION

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Due Date: 2021-11-17

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