CVE-2016-5140: Google Chrome

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_j2k_read_SQcd_SQcc function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 52.0.2743.82

Published 2016-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.