CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10505

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 30, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities in the imagetopnm function in convert.c, sycc444_to_rgb function in color.c, color_esycc_to_rgb function in color.c, and sycc422_to_rgb function in color.c in OpenJPEG before 2.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted j2k files.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
OpenjpegUclouvain*2.1.2 (including)
OpenjpegUbuntutrusty*
OpenjpegUbuntuupstream*
OpenjpegUbuntuvivid*
OpenjpegUbuntuwily*
Openjpeg2Ubuntuartful*
Openjpeg2Ubuntuupstream*
Openjpeg2Ubuntuzesty*

Potential Mitigations

References