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CVE-2016-5158

Public on 2016-09-11
Modified on 2017-03-22
Description

An integer overflow, leading to a heap buffer overflow, was found in openjpeg, also affecting the PDF viewer in Chromium. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image could cause incorrect calculations when allocating various data structures, which could lead to a crash, or potentially, code execution.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openjpeg 2017-03-22 16:00 ALAS-2017-807

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H