Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium-browser (opens in a new tab)
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- published16 Dec 2020
- disclosed8 Jan 2021
Introduced: 16 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-16040 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
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.
Insufficient data validation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16040
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162087/Google-Chrome-86.0.4240-V8-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162106/Google-Chrome-86.0.4240-V8-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162144/Google-Chrome-SimplfiedLowering-Integer-Overflow.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/1150649
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49745