CVE-2016-5140 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5140?

CVE-2016-5140 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 7 Aug 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_j2k_read_SQcd_SQcc function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5140?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5140?

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-2016-5140 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5140 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vg65-mqm9-pjgm, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5140.