What is CVE-2016-2213?

CVE-2016-2213 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-02-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-2213?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Ffmpeg

CVE-2016-2213

The jpeg2000_decode_tile function in libavcodec/jpeg2000dec.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array read access) via crafted JPEG 2000 data.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-02-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ffmpeg

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

git.videolan.org/
www.securitytracker.com/id/1034923 (vdb-entry)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-2213?: CVE-2016-2213 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ffmpeg, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-02-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-2213?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.