CVE-2015-1239 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1239?

CVE-2015-1239 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 18 Oct 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Double free vulnerability in the j2k_read_ppm_v3 function in OpenJPEG before r2997, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted PDF.

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1239?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome, Uclouvain Openjpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1239?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-1239 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1239 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-24061 GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-9680 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.8

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1239, GHSA-935h-fp8w-9vph, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1239.