Use After Free Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.7% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-584809
- published 15 Jul 2020
- disclosed 22 Jul 2020
Introduced: 15 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-6518 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
Use after free in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.89 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced the user to use developer tools to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-6518
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6518
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTRPPTKZ2RKVH2XGQCWNFZ7FOGQ5LLCA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MYIDWCHG24ZTFD4P42D4A4WWPPA74BCG/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-08
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/986051
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00069.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00041.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTRPPTKZ2RKVH2XGQCWNFZ7FOGQ5LLCA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MYIDWCHG24ZTFD4P42D4A4WWPPA74BCG/
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