PT-2016-2153 · Google+4 · Google Chrome+5

Ke Liu · Published 2016-05-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1685

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 51.0.2704.63 PDFium (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the incorrect handling of certain index values in the core/fxge/ge/fx ge text.cpp component of PDFium, used in Google Chrome. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, specifically an out-of-bounds read, by using a specially crafted PDF document.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 51.0.2704.63, update to version 51.0.2704.63 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of PDF documents from untrusted sources until the update is applied. Restrict access to the core/fxge/ge/fx ge text.cpp component of PDFium to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

BDU:2016-01506

CVE-2016-1685

DSA-3590-1

MGASA-2016-0214

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1430-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1496-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:1190

RHSA-2016_1190

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Pdfium

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2356

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01506 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1685 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0214 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1685 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00063.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1685 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0214.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1685 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3590 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-07 · Vendor Advisory