CVE-2020-16044

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

Use after free in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.96 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted SCTP packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16044

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16044.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-17

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-4

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.6.2165.36-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed84.0.2-1
debian debianbookwormfixed78.6.1esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed78.6.1esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed78.6.1esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed78.6.1esr-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.