CVE-2020-16011

chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in UI on Windows

Published 3 Nov 2020Modified 17 Jun 2026CWE 787

In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Heap buffer overflow in UI in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 86.0.4240.183 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

Affected packages and fixed versions

Source	Package	Fixed in
debian 10	chromium	87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
ubuntu 16.04	chromium-browser	86.0.4240.198-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 18.04	chromium-browser	86.0.4240.198-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

References

All 9 references

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4824

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