CVE-2020-6540 — Out-of-bounds Write in Google Chrome

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Google ChromeChromiumDebian Chromium+3 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 21
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.105 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5google/chromeunspecified — 84.0.4147.105
▶NVDgoogle/chrome< 84.0.4147.105
▶debiandebian/chromium< chromium 87.0.4280.88-0.1 (bookworm)
▶Debianchromium/chromium< 87.0.4280.88-0.1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Fedora 33

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-fpcq-7xx3-h92j: Buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 84↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2020-6540: Buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 84↗2020-09-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Chrome
Stable Channel Update for Desktop: CVE-2020-6540↗2020-07-27
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Red Hat
chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Skia↗2020-07-27
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Debian
CVE-2020-6540: chromium - Buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.105 allowed a remote...↗2020
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-6540 chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Skia↗2020-07-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-6532 CVE-2020-6537 CVE-2020-6538 CVE-2020-6539 CVE-2020-6540 CVE-2020-6541 chromium: various flaws [epel-all]↗2020-07-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-6532 CVE-2020-6537 CVE-2020-6538 CVE-2020-6539 CVE-2020-6540 CVE-2020-6541 chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2020-07-28
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