CVSS 3.0
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-1685
Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
core/fxge/ge/fx_ge_text.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, miscalculates certain index values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted PDF document.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- google:chrome
- opensuse:leap
- opensuse:opensuse
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- suse:linux_enterprise
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update_25.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00063.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3590