CVE-2016-9573 Information disclosure in openjpeg

What is CVE-2016-9573?

CVE-2016-9573 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 Aug 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG 2.1.2, in the j2k_to_image tool. Converting a specially crafted JPEG2000 file to another format could cause the application to crash or, potentially, disclose some data from the heap.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9573?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9573?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-9573 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9573 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9573, GHSA-f6vv-86p4-jjqr, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9573.