Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
CISA lists this Google Chrome FreeType vulnerability as known exploited. The vendor's advisory has the fixed versions.
CISA catalog record
Google Chrome uses FreeType, an open-source software library to render fonts, which contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function Load_SBit_Png when processing PNG images embedded into fonts. This vulnerability is part of an exploit chain with CVE-2020-17087 on Windows and CVE-2020-16010 on Android.
- Product
- Chrome FreeType
- Added to KEV
- 3 Nov 2021
- Federal remediation due
- 17 Nov 2021
- Known ransomware use
- Not reported
What changed
First observed 14 Oct 2026No field changes in the recorded history.
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