CVE-2016-1923

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 82.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-01-27 20:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 23:10Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-01-18

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

7fb2c01aa00b67ceea8767dbd5564b65c1dc66d413101aa8229ba5bb500338d9

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201612-26https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-26vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160118 Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the OpenJpeg's opj_j2k_update_image_data and opj_tgt_reset functionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160118 Out-of-bounds Read in the OpenJpeg's opj_j2k_update_image_data and opj_tgt_reset functionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlx_refsource_MISC