A memory corruption bug(Heap overflow) in the FreeType font rendering library.
This can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by using specially crafted fonts with embedded PNG images .
As per https://www.secpod.com/blog/chrome-zero-day-under-active-exploitation-patch-now/
Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild.
Upgrade to 85.3.130 or higher
To review the CEF/Chromium patch see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/commits/cd6cbe008b127990036945fb75e7c2c1594ab10d
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-119",
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-10-27T19:47:22Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2020-11-03T03:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
}