CVE-2016-1628 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1628?

CVE-2016-1628 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 Feb 2016. 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

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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1628?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1628?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-1628 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1628 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-2016-1628, GHSA-84x5-p2mg-fvmp, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1628.