CVE-2016-4796

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4796

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4796.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4796

Downstream

Published

2017-02-03T16:59:00Z

Modified

2026-08-07T14:48:21Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the color_cmyk_to_rgb in common/color.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted .j2k file.

Database specific

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            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "2.1.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product":  "uclouvain:openjpeg"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "23"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "23"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "24"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "24"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "fedoraproject:fedora"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg

Events

Introduced

Fixed

53f25200ed696cf5dc71d5fe12faad2570861b20

Fixed

162f6199c0cd3ec1c6c6dc65e41b2faab92b2d91

Database specific

Show details

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    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "2.1.1"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4796.json"

vanir_signatures

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vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-08-07T14:48:21Z"