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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-15999): FreeType vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-15999): FreeType vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/20/2020
Created
10/22/2020
Added
10/21/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreetype6

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