Integer overflows in OpenJPEG leading to heap-based buffer overflow in PDFium

Integer overflows in OpenJPEG leading to heap-based buffer overflow in PDFium

CVE-2016-5159 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple integer overflows 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, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data that is mishandled during opj_aligned_malloc calls in dwt.c and t1.c.

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