CVE-2020-15999
ADVISORY - githubSummary
Impact
A memory corruption bug(Heap overflow) in the FreeType font rendering library.
This can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by using specially crafted fonts with embedded PNG images .
As per https://www.secpod.com/blog/chrome-zero-day-under-active-exploitation-patch-now/
Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild.
Patches
Upgrade to 85.3.130 or higher
References
- https://www.secpod.com/blog/chrome-zero-day-under-active-exploitation-patch-now/
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-releases-chrome-security-update-to-patch-actively-exploited-zero-day/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15999
- https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17942
To review the CEF/Chromium
patch see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/commits/cd6cbe008b127990036945fb75e7c2c1594ab10d
EPSS Score: 0.92732 (0.997)
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
ADVISORY - nist
ADVISORY - github
ADVISORY - gitlab
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