CVE-2016-5157

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_dwt_interleave_v function in dwt.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted coordinate values in JPEG 2000 data.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24, 25
Google Chrome: through 52.0.2743.116
openSUSE Leap: 42.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1854.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3660
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92717
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036729
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374337
https://crbug.com/632622

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