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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5157 Heap overflow in PDFium

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5157 Heap overflow in PDFium

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/15/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_dwt_interleave_v function in dwt.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted coordinate values in JPEG 2000 data.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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