Out-of-bounds read in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6530

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Out-of-bounds read in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6530

Published: July 14, 2020 / Updated: July 15, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU29884
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6530
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to crash the browser.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the developer tools component in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and crash the browser.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
chromium (Debian package)
chromium-browser (Red Hat package)
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2020-6530

Update to version 84.0.4147.89.

Google Chrome - update to 84.0.4147.89
chromium (Debian package) - update to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
chromium-browser (Red Hat package) - update to 84.0.4147.105-2.el6_10
chromium - addressed in versions 84.0.4147.89-1.el7, 84.0.4147.89-1.el8, 84.0.4147.89-1.fc31, 84.0.4147.89-1.fc32

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