CVE-2016-1685: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 50.0.2661.102
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise: version 12.0 only

Published 2016-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.