CVE-2016-1685

Description

core/fxge/ge/fx_ge_text.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, miscalculates certain index values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted PDF document.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

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/1875673004
• https://crbug.com/601362
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-07
• 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/1875673004
• https://crbug.com/601362
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-07

CWEs

CWE-119