CVE-2015-1239

Publication date 18 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openjpeg2	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u2build0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
openjpeg	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

eslerm

j2k_read_ppm_v3 refactored with merge 28c6f54 which includes d1b053a and c887df1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
openjpeg2	Upstream: d1b053a Upstream: c887df1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H