CVE-2016-1686

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The CPDF_DIBSource::CreateDecoder function in core/fpdfapi/fpdf_render/fpdf_render_loadimage.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles decoder-initialization failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted PDF document.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 50.0.2661.102
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00063.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3590
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90876
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035981
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190
https://codereview.chromium.org/1892143003
https://crbug.com/603518
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-07
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update_25.html

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