CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9117

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 30, 2016 | Modified: Sep 09, 2020
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
5.6 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c(jp2):1289 in OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k file.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openjpeg Uclouvain 2.1.2 (including) 2.1.2 (including)
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Openjpeg Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Openjpeg Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Openjpeg Ubuntu trusty *
Openjpeg Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Openjpeg Ubuntu upstream *
Openjpeg Ubuntu xenial *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu artful *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu upstream *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu xenial *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu yakkety *
Openjpeg2 Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References