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
2017-02-03T16:59:00.247Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:41:30.268492Z
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 colorcmykto_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 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "uclouvain:openjpeg",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.1.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "23"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "23"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "24"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "24"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
53f25200ed696cf5dc71d5fe12faad2570861b20
Fixed
162f6199c0cd3ec1c6c6dc65e41b2faab92b2d91
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.1.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 1551.0,
            "function_hash": "134464743987787230719671113372916798236"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/162f6199c0cd3ec1c6c6dc65e41b2faab92b2d91",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "color_cmyk_to_rgb",
            "file": "src/bin/common/color.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-4796-64fc458f",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "281879827006156950804066750185371585500",
                "242510693724452804591160714773927432543",
                "139685648053095491543908164286238942877",
                "228032896656891271929285980984670012589"
            ]
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/162f6199c0cd3ec1c6c6dc65e41b2faab92b2d91",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/bin/common/color.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-4796-e267dae1",
        "deprecated": false
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T12:41:30Z"
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4796.json"