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CVE-2016-3616

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3616 describes a critical vulnerability in the cjpeg utility of libjpeg, affecting products from Canonical, Debian, libjpeg-turbo, and Red Hat. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code through a crafted file, requiring user interaction. Despite its high risk, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libjpeg-turbo:libjpeg-turbo:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0439 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libjpeg-turbo-0:1.2.90-8.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libjpeg
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libjpeg-turbo
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: mingw-virt-viewer

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-3616Moderate

libjpeg: null pointer dereference in cjpeg

Mar 30, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2052
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3706-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3706-2
Third Party Advisory