What is CVE-2016-5159?

CVE-2016-5159 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-09-11.

How severe is CVE-2016-5159?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-5159 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Integer overflow in Google Chrome

CVE-2016-5159

Multiple integer overflows in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data that is mishandled during opj_aligned_malloc calls in dwt.c and t1.c.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2016-09-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Chrome
openSUSE Leap — versions 42.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31…
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/92717 (vdb-entry)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1036729 (vdb-entry)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0559.html (vendor-advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0838.html (vendor-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html (vendor-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3768 (vendor-advisory)
crbug.com/628304

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5159?: CVE-2016-5159 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-09-11.
How severe is CVE-2016-5159?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-5159 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.