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CVE-2016-9573

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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 products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: 2.1.2

References

• 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
• https://github.com/szukw000/openjpeg/commit/7b28bd2b723df6be09fe7791eba33147c1c47d0d
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/862
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3768
• 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
• https://github.com/szukw000/openjpeg/commit/7b28bd2b723df6be09fe7791eba33147c1c47d0d
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/862

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