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CVE-2020-16008

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit stack corruption via a crafted WebRTC packet.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
• Google Chrome: before 86.0.4240.183 — fixed in 86.0.4240.183
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1, 15.0-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 86.0.4240.183. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00017.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1134107
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S4XYJ7B6OXHZNYSA5J3DBUOFEC6WCAGW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SC3U3H6AISVZB5PLZLLNF4HMQ4UFFL7M/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-12
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00017.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1134107

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