Summary
Google Chrome uses FreeType, an open-source software library to render fonts, which contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function Load_SBit_Png when processing PNG images embedded into fonts. This vulnerability is part of an exploit chain with CVE-2020-17087 on Windows and CVE-2020-16010 on Android.
- Vendor
- Product
- Chrome FreeType
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- Nov 17, 2021 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- EPSS
- 63.9% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References