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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2020-6556 – Google Chrome SwiftShader buffer overflow

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

Google Chrome is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by SwiftShader. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Impact

  • Execute arbitrary code
  • Application crash

Affected Vendors

Google

Affected Products

Google Chrome 84

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Google Chrome (84.0.4147.135 or later).

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