CVE-2016-1628

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Published 2016-02-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
73%
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-2016-1628

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.1.2-1.2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.1.2-1.2
debian debianforkyfixed2.1.2-1.2
debian debiansidfixed2.1.2-1.2
debian debiantrixiefixed2.1.2-1.2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"48.0.2564.103"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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