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FreeBSD: VID-64575BB6-E188-11EA-BEED-E09467587C17 (CVE-2020-6556): chromium -- heap buffer overflow

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FreeBSD: VID-64575BB6-E188-11EA-BEED-E09467587C17 (CVE-2020-6556): chromium -- heap buffer overflow

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/18/2020
Created
08/20/2020
Added
08/19/2020
Modified
10/20/2020

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-64575BB6-E188-11EA-BEED-E09467587C17:

Chrome Releases reports:

This release contains one security fix:

[1115345] High CVE-2020-6556: Heap buffer overflow in

SwiftShader. Reported by Alison Huffman, Microsoft Browser

Vulnerability Research on 2020-08-12

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-chromium

References

  • CVE-2020-6556

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