CVE-2016-1628

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Published 2016-02-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

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

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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

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.1.2-1.2`
sid	Fixed	`2.1.2-1.2`
forky	Fixed	`2.1.2-1.2`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.1.2-1.2`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.1.2-1.2`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endIncluding":"48.0.2564.103"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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