CVE-2016-1651

high

Published 2016-04-18 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.1

Description

fxcodec/codec/fx_codec_jpx_opj.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, does not properly implement the sycc420_to_rgb and sycc422_to_rgb functions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted JPEG 2000 data in a PDF document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

88%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	8.0	affected
suse	42.1	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endIncluding":"49.0.2623.112"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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