CVE-2020-15999

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.

References

• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15999
• https://packetstorm.news/files/id/227009/
• https://packetstorm.news/download/227009
• https://packetstorm.news/files/id/225984/
• https://packetstorm.news/download/225984
• https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-1435
• https://crbug.com/1139963
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
• https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19