Buffer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-16016

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Buffer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2020-16016

Published: November 10, 2020 / Updated: November 23, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU48237
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-16016
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content inside a third-party library, used by Google Chrome. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Fedora
chromium (Debian package)
chromium-browser (Red Hat package)
www-client/chromium
www-client/google-chrome
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2020-16016

Install updates from vendor's website.

Google Chrome - update to 86.0.4240.193
chromium (Debian package) - update to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
chromium-browser (Red Hat package) - update to 86.0.4240.198-1.el6_10
www-client/chromium - update to 86.0.4240.193
www-client/google-chrome - update to 86.0.4240.193
chromium - update to 86.0.4240.193-1
chromium - addressed in versions 86.0.4240.198-1.el7, 86.0.4240.198-1.el8, 86.0.4240.198-1.fc31, 86.0.4240.198-1.fc32, 86.0.4240.198-1.fc33, 87.0.4280.66-1.el7, 87.0.4280.66-1.el8, 87.0.4280.66-1.fc32, 87.0.4280.88-1.el7, 87.0.4280.88-1.el8

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