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CVE-2016-5154

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5154 describes multiple heap-based buffer overflows in PDFium, a PDF rendering engine used by Google Chrome and other products like openSUSE. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve arbitrary code execution by crafting a malicious JBig2 image. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it is easily exploitable via user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious PDF) and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is readily available and it's not on the KEV catalog, there has been some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of this flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 52.0.2743.116CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.89-3.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5154Important

chromium-browser: heap overflow in pdfium

Aug 31, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1854.html
codereview.chromium.org / 2202013002
crbug.com / 633002
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-09
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3660
securityfocus.com / bid/92717
securitytracker.com / id/1036729