Buffer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2016-5139
Published: August 7, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40143
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5139
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
Multiple integer overflows in the opj_tcd_init_tile function in tcd.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-5139
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0559.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0838.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92276
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2124073003
- https://crbug.com/625541
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00025.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09