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CVE-2020-6379

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

Description

Use after free in V8 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/1033407
• 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/1033407
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6IOHSO6BUKC6I66J5PZOMAGFVJ66ZS57/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08

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