CVE-2018-16376

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the function t2_encode_packet in lib/openmj2/t2.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16376

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16376.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`2.5.0-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	affected
debian	sid	affected
debian	trixie	affected

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16376.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16376

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