Input validation error in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6567

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Input validation error in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-6567

Published: August 25, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU46064
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-2020-6567
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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 improper input validation in command line handling in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can trick the victim to perform certain actions in browser and crash it.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2020-6567

Update to version 85.0.4183.83.

Google Chrome - update to 85.0.4183.83
chromium (Debian package) - update to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
chromium-browser (Red Hat package) - update to 85.0.4183.83-1.el6_10
chromium-browser-debuginfo (Red Hat package) - update to 85.0.4183.83-1.el6_10
chromium - addressed in versions 85.0.4183.83-1.el7, 85.0.4183.83-1.el8, 85.0.4183.83-1.fc31, 85.0.4183.83-1.fc32, 85.0.4183.83-1.fc33

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