CVE-2016-9572

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.2%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2018-08-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
uclouvain:openjpeg

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

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