CVE-2020-15979 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2020-15979?

CVE-2020-15979 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Nov 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15979?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports Sle.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15979?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2020-15979 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Exploited Critical 9.8
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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15979, GHSA-8p62-835f-3jqx, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15979.