High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 21, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-6556
CVE-2020-6556
Description
Heap buffer overflow in SwiftShader in Google Chrome prior to 84.0.4147.135 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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Affected products
8- Range: <84.0.4147.135
- osv-coords5 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%20NonFree
< 84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1
- (no CPE)range: < 84.0.4147.135-lp152.2.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 71.0.3770.228-lp152.2.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 71.0.3770.228-lp152.2.18.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00049.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_18.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- crbug.com/1115345nvdThird 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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