CVE-2016-1645

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in the opj_j2k_update_image_data function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.87, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect cast and out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 49.0.2623.75
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
openSUSE Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 12.0

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_8.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00066.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00067.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00073.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3513
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84224
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035259
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-197/
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587227
https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/c145aeb2bf13ac408fc3e8233acca43d4251bbdc
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_8.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00066.html

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