CVE-2020-6463

Published: 21 May 2020

Use after free in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.122 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Notes

Author	Note
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
tyhicks	mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

Author

Note

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

tyhicks

mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
chromium-browser Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (81.0.4044.122-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	eoan	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	focal	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	groovy	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	hirsute	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	impish	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	kinetic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (81.0.4044.122)
	xenial	Released (81.0.4044.122-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	groovy	Released (80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1)
	hirsute	Released (80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1)
	impish	Released (80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1)
	jammy	Released (80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1)
	kinetic	Released (80.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (79)
	xenial	Released (79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2)
mozjs38 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs52 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	groovy	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs60 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	groovy	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
mozjs68 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	groovy	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (1:78.8.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (1:78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	groovy	Not vulnerable (1:78.3.2+build1-0ubuntu1)
	hirsute	Not vulnerable (1:78.4.3+build1-0ubuntu1)
	impish	Not vulnerable (1:78.4.3+build1-0ubuntu1)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (1:78.4.3+build1-0ubuntu1)
	kinetic	Not vulnerable (1:78.4.3+build1-0ubuntu1)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (68.11)
	xenial	Needed

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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