CVE-2020-6418
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-02-27 22:55
Modified
2025-01-29 16:56
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.122 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156632/Google-Chrome-80-JSCreate-Side-Effect-Type-Confusion.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0738Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/1053604Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/Release Notes
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3B5RWJQD5LA45MYLLR55KZJOJ5NVZGP/Release Notes
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08Third Party Advisory
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4638Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156632/Google-Chrome-80-JSCreate-Side-Effect-Type-Confusion.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0738Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/1053604Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3B5RWJQD5LA45MYLLR55KZJOJ5NVZGP/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4638Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
GoogleChrome
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