NULL pointer dereference in OpenJPEG and Debian Linux - CVE-2016-9572

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NULL pointer dereference in OpenJPEG and Debian Linux - CVE-2016-9572

Published: August 1, 2018 / Updated: December 29, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36803
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9572
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the way openjpeg 2.1.2 decoded certain input images. Due to a logic error in the code responsible for decoding the input image, an application using openjpeg to process image data could crash when processing a crafted image. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

OpenJPEG
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
Oracle Database Server
openjpeg2
mingw-openjpeg2

How to mitigate CVE-2016-9572

Install update from vendor's website.

openjpeg2 - addressed in versions 2.1.2-2.fc23, 2.1.2-2.fc24, 2.1.2-2.fc25, 2.1.2-3.fc23
mingw-openjpeg2 - addressed in versions 2.1.2-2.fc23, 2.1.2-2.fc24, 2.1.2-2.fc25, 2.1.2-3.fc23, 2.1.2-3.fc24, 2.1.2-3.fc25

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