Buffer overflow in Debian Linux - CVE-2016-1628
Published: February 21, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40474
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1628
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Debian
Affected software:
Debian Linux
Debian Linux
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-1628
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0241.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83125
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035183
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-172/
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571479
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1590593002
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26