CVE-2015-1239

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Published 2017-10-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

4.3

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Double free vulnerability in the j2k_read_ppm_v3 function in OpenJPEG before r2997, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted PDF.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1239

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1239.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.1.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.1.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.1.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.1.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.1.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
uclouvain	openjpeg	`{"endExcluding":"2.1.1"}`	`2.1.1`
google	pdfium	`-`
google	chrome	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-415

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.