Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package android (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published4 Jul 2025
- disclosed3 Nov 2020
Introduced: 3 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-15999 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream android package and not the android package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-15999
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/33
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-04
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html
- https://crbug.com/1139963
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/rca-cve-2020-15999.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240812-0001/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3QVIGAAJ4D62YEJAJJWMCCBCOQ6TVL7/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15999
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog