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CVE-2020-6422 (GCVE-0-2020-6422)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-20 13:51 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:02
VLAI
Summary
Use after free in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.149 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Use after free
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/03/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1051748 x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4645 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-53 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 80.0.3987.149 (custom)
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