CVE-2016-5157 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5157?

CVE-2016-5157 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 Sep 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

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_dwt_interleave_v function in dwt.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted coordinate values in JPEG 2000 data.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5157?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5157?

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-2016-5157 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5157 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5157, GHSA-4w78-qc97-hvjf, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5157.