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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-15999: Important: freetype security update (ALSA-2020-4952)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-15999: Important: freetype security update (ALSA-2020-4952)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/20/2022

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-freetype
  • alma-upgrade-freetype-devel

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