Type Confusion in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6533

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Type Confusion in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6533

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU29885
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-6533
CWE-ID: CWE-843
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the V8 component in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger a type confusion 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-2020-6533

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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