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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1681 Heap overflow in PDFium

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1681 Heap overflow in PDFium

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_j2k_read_SPCod_SPCoc function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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