Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 8, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-16040

Description

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.

Affected products

Google/Chromev5
Range: unspecified

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/162087/Google-Chrome-86.0.4240-V8-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
packetstormsecurity.com/files/162106/Google-Chrome-86.0.4240-V8-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
packetstormsecurity.com/files/162144/Google-Chrome-SimplfiedLowering-Integer-Overflow.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
crbug.com/1150649mitrex_refsource_MISC

News mentions

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