CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-5159

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before version 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to denial of service, affecting application availability and potentially creating other unspecified threats to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Google Chrome to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized activities.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple integer overflows 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, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data that is mishandled during opj_aligned_malloc calls in dwt.c and t1.c.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS