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CVE-2016-9572

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way openjpeg 2.1.2 decoded certain input images. Due to a logic error in the code responsible for decoding the input image, an application using openjpeg to process image data could crash when processing a crafted image.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: 2.1.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109233
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9572
• https://github.com/szukw000/openjpeg/commit/7b28bd2b723df6be09fe7791eba33147c1c47d0d
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/863
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3768
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109233
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9572
• https://github.com/szukw000/openjpeg/commit/7b28bd2b723df6be09fe7791eba33147c1c47d0d
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/863
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26

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