CVE-2016-9573

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG 2.1.2, in the j2k_to_image tool. Converting a specially crafted JPEG2000 file to another format could cause the application to crash or, potentially, disclose some data from the heap.

Affected

The OpenJPEG Project · openjpeg

CVSS v3.0 NVD

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

CVSS v3.0 REDHAT

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS

2.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 85th percentile

Published

2018-08-01

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/8621118★ · 2026-09-05

Security advisories

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0838.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97073
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9573
• szukw000/openjpeg/commit/7b28bd2b723df6be09fe7791eba33147c1c47d0d
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3768

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-7163
• CVE-2016-9112
• CVE-2016-9113
• CVE-2016-9114
• CVE-2016-9115
• CVE-2016-9116