What is CVE-2016-3182?

CVE-2016-3182 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uclouvain Openjpeg, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.

How severe is CVE-2016-3182?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Uclouvain Openjpeg

CVE-2016-3182

The color_esycc_to_rgb function in bin/common/color.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted jpeg 2000 file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2020-02-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Uclouvain Openjpeg

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/27/1 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/16/16 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/725 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3182?: CVE-2016-3182 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uclouvain Openjpeg, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.
How severe is CVE-2016-3182?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.