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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.3

CVE-2016-1628 json

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…

published 2016-02-21 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2723

cvss
6.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • openjpeg2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1.2-1.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1628

  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1111

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1628

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 48.0.2564.109-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0241

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1628 updated cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 48.0.2564.109-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 48.0.2564.109-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 48.0.2564.109-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0241

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.