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CVE-2020-16042

Published: 15 December 2020

Uninitialized Use in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in
Ubuntu
mdeslaur
starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just
a script that installs the Chromium snap

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
chromium-browser
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
groovy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

bionic
Released (89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
xenial
Released (89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream
Released (87.0.4280.88)
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu2)
bionic
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
groovy
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.10.1)
xenial
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
hirsute
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu2)
jammy
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu2)
kinetic
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu2)
lunar
Released (84.0+build3-0ubuntu2)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (84)
thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish
Released (1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
bionic
Released (1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
trusty Does not exist

jammy
Released (1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
focal
Released (1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
groovy
Released (1:78.6.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.10.1)
hirsute
Released (1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
kinetic
Released (1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
lunar
Released (1:78.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1)
upstream
Released (78.6)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support, was needed)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N