High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 21, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-6540
CVE-2020-6540
Description
Buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.105 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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Affected products
10- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/opera&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1%20NonFreepkg:rpm/opensuse/opera&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2%20NonFreepkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP2
< 84.0.4147.105-lp152.2.9.1+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 84.0.4147.105-lp152.2.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 84.0.4147.105-lp152.2.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 70.0.3728.133-lp151.2.27.1
- (no CPE)range: < 70.0.3728.133-lp152.2.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 84.0.4147.105-bp151.3.97.1
- (no CPE)range: < 84.0.4147.105-bp152.2.10.1
Patches
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References
5- chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.htmlnvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- crbug.com/1105720nvdPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-30nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE7XWIZBME7JAY7N6CGPET4CLNHHEIVT/nvd
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