Use of uninitialized resource in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-15989

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Use of uninitialized resource in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-15989

Published: October 7, 2020 / Updated: October 7, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU47381
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15989
CWE-ID: CWE-908
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 usage of uninitialized resources in PDFium in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and crash the browser.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2020-15989

Update to version 86.0.4240.75.

Google Chrome - update to 86.0.4240.75
chromium (Debian package) - update to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
chromium-browser (Red Hat package) - update to 86.0.4240.75-1.el6_10
chromium - addressed in versions 86.0.4240.111-1.el7, 86.0.4240.111-1.el8, 86.0.4240.111-1.fc31, 86.0.4240.111-1.fc32, 86.0.4240.111-1.fc33, 86.0.4240.183-1.el7, 86.0.4240.183-1.el8, 86.0.4240.183-1.fc33, 86.0.4240.198-1.el7, 86.0.4240.198-1.el8, 87.0.4280.66-1.el7, 87.0.4280.66-1.el8, 87.0.4280.88-1.el7, 87.0.4280.88-1.el8

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