CVE-2016-3616: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cjpeg utility in libjpeg allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Libjpeg-Turbo Libjpeg-Turbo: version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.4 only

Published 2017-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.