CVE-2020-16011: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.6. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
  • Google Chrome: before 86.0.4240.183 (fixed in 86.0.4240.183)
  • Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.