CVE-2020-6378

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: yes
Published: 2020-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in speech in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.130 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 30
Google Chrome: before 79.0.3945.130 — fixed in 79.0.3945.130

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 79.0.3945.130. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
https://crbug.com/1018677
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
https://crbug.com/1018677
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08

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