CVE-2016-9116

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Published 2016-10-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:2226(jp2) in OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9116

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9116.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/859

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed2.2.0-1
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
uclouvainopenjpeg2.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.