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CVE-2015-1279
Integer overflow in the CJBig2_Image::expand function in fxcodec/jbig2/JBig2_Image.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in the CJBig2_Image::expand function in fxcodec/jbig2/JBig2_Image.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via large height and stride values.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- RHSA-2015:1499 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1241493002 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1287 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1033031 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=483981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201603-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 75973 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1237723002 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3315 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-1420 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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