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CVE-2018-16375 json

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0.

published 2018-09-03 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-8221

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. Missing checks for header_info.height and header_info.width in the function pnmtoimage in bin/jpwl/convert.c can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Patch / fix

  • openjpeg2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16375

  • openjpeg2 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.3.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16375

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openjpeg2 SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15 +20 more 2.3.0-150000.3.5.1
  • openjpeg2 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +10 more 2.1.0-4.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1252-1SUSE-SU-2022:1129-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-16375 updated cvss 7.0

openjpeg: Heap-based buffer overflow in pnmtoimage function in bin/jpwl/convert.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openjpeg, openjpeg-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openjpeg, openjpeg-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 openjpeg2, openjpeg2-tools
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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