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CVE-2015-8871

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the opj_j2k_write_mco function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: through 2.1.0

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3665
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/15/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/13/1
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263359
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/940100c28ae28931722290794889cf84a92c5f6f
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/563
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-26
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3665
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/15/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/13/1

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