CVE-2022-1122

A flaw was found in the opj2_decompress program in openjpeg2 2.4.0 in the way it handles an input directory with a large number of files. When it fails to allocate a buffer to store the filenames of the input directory, it calls free() on an uninitialized pointer, leading to a segmentation fault and a denial of service.

Weakness

The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, in Java, if the programmer does not explicitly initialize a variable, then the code could produce a compile-time error (if the variable is local) or automatically initialize the variable to the default value for the variable’s type. In Perl, if explicit initialization is not performed, then a default value of undef is assigned, which is interpreted as 0, false, or an equivalent value depending on the context in which the variable is accessed.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/26.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/29.html

References

• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1368
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00006.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MIWSQFQWXDU4MT3XTVAO6HC7TVL3NHS7/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RMKBAMK2CAM5TMC5TODKVCE5AAPTD5YV/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ROSN5NRUFOH7HGLJ4ZSKPGAKLFXJALW4/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-04