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CVE-2015-1239

Double Free

Published: Oct 18, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1239
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

Double free vulnerability in the j2k_read_ppm_v3 function in OpenJPEG before r2997, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted PDF.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openjpeg Uclouvain * 2.1.1 (excluding)
Openjpeg Ubuntu upstream *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu upstream *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References

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