CVE-2015-1239

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-10-18 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free vulnerability in the j2k_read_ppm_v3 function in OpenJPEG before r2997, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted PDF.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: all versions
uclouvain openjpeg: before 2.1.1 — fixed in 2.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: uclouvain openjpeg 2.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=430891
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=457493
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00025.html
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=430891
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=457493
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00025.html

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