Out-of-Bounds Affecting chromium package, versions [,49.0.2623.87)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
25.45% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410469
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-1628  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 49.0.2623.87 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds 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.

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