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CVE-2016-5140

chromium-browser: Heap overflow in pdfium

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_j2k_read_SQcd_SQcc function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7chromium-browserno fix listed
debian 8chromium-browser52.0.2743.116-1~deb8u1
ubuntu 14.04chromium-browser52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1134
ubuntu 16.04chromium-browser52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1250
ubuntu 16.10chromium-browser53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307

References

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