VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-9115
Impact is Denial of Service.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.12%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Heap Buffer Over-read in function imagetotga of convert.c(jp2):942 in OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k file.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.12% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- uclouvain/openjpeg
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93977Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/858Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93977Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/858Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.