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CVE-2016-10505

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10505 describes multiple NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities within the imagetopnm and color conversion functions of OpenJPEG prior to version 2.2.0. These flaws allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) by supplying specially crafted J2K files. Rated 6.5 MEDIUM, exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) over a network (AV:N), leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0215 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openjpeg
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openjpeg

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-10505Low

openjpeg: NULL pointer dereference in imagetopnm function in convert.c

Aug 30, 2017

References

github.com / uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/776
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/784
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/785
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/792
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201710-26