Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CHROMIUM-1037240
  • published5 Nov 2020
  • disclosed3 Nov 2020

Introduced: 3 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-15997  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium package and not the chromium package as distributed by Debian.

Use after free in Mojo in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.99 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.