Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40061

Division by zero in OpenJPEG - CVE-2016-9112

Published: October 29, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40061

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9112

CWE-ID: CWE-369

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: openjpeg.org

Affected software:
OpenJPEG

Detailed vulnerability description

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

Floating Point Exception (aka FPE or divide by zero) in opj_pi_next_cprl function in openjp2/pi.c:523 in OpenJPEG 2.1.2.

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