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CVE-2020-6450

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.162 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• Google Chrome: before 80.0.3987.162 — fixed in 80.0.3987.162
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 80.0.3987.162. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00031.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
• https://crbug.com/1062247
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JMXT4OKBMCJSNSX7TZDBJNY6ORKFZRFO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQTV7EFWQKF6VJBCVH4PUQJLGO7ISLTN/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00031.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
• https://crbug.com/1062247
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JMXT4OKBMCJSNSX7TZDBJNY6ORKFZRFO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQTV7EFWQKF6VJBCVH4PUQJLGO7ISLTN/

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