CVE-2016-7163

high

Published 2016-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Integer overflow in the opj_pi_create_decode function in pi.c in OpenJPEG allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted JP2 file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
25	Affected	—
24	Affected	—
23	Affected	—

Red Hat Affected 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.7	Affected	—
7.6	Affected	—
7.5	Affected	—
7.4	Affected	—
7.3	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.1.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.1.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.1.2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.1.2-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.1.2-1`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
uclouvain	openjpeg	`{"endExcluding":"2.2.0"}`	`2.2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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