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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1628 Out-of-bounds read in PDFium

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1628 Out-of-bounds read in PDFium

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/29/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

pi.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, does not validate a certain precision value, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted JPEG 2000 image in a PDF document, related to the opj_pi_next_rpcl, opj_pi_next_pcrl, and opj_pi_next_cprl functions.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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