CVE-2016-3616

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The cjpeg utility in libjpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux: 8.0
libjpeg-turbo: 7.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.4

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2052
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318509
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319661
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00015.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3706-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3706-2/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2052
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318509
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319661
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00015.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3706-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3706-2/

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