CVE-2015-6581

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Double free vulnerability in the opj_j2k_copy_default_tcp_and_create_tcd function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG before r3002, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering a memory-allocation failure.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 44.0.2403

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168736.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169258.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3665
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033472
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=486538
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526825
https://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/issues/detail?id=492
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168736.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169258.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3665

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