Out-of-Bounds Affecting chromium package, versions [,53.0.2785.103)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
2.29% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410820
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-1685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 53.0.2785.103 or higher.

Overview

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

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