CVE-2016-1628

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

pi.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, does not validate a certain precision value, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted JPEG 2000 image in a PDF document, related to the opj_pi_next_rpcl, opj_pi_next_pcrl, and opj_pi_next_cprl functions.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 48.0.2564.103

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0241.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83125
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035183
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-172/
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571479
https://codereview.chromium.org/1590593002
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html

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