CVE-2020-6416

Publication date 11 February 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Insufficient data validation in streams in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.87 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 19.10 eoan
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 80.0.3987.87-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 80.0.3987.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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