Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40055

Buffer overflow in OpenJPEG - CVE-2016-9118

Published: October 31, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40055

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9118

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Heap Buffer Overflow (WRITE of size 4) in function pnmtoimage of convert.c:1719 in OpenJPEG 2.1.2.

OpenJPEG
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