NULL pointer dereference in OpenJPEG - CVE-2016-9116
Published: October 31, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40057
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-2016-9116
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:2226(jp2) in OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k file.
Affected software
OpenJPEG
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
mingw-openjpeg2
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
mingw-openjpeg2
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9116
Install update from vendor's website.
mingw-openjpeg2 - update to 2.2.0-1.fc25