CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-41999

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 22, 2022 | Modified: May 30, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the DDS native tile reading functionality of OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO v2.3.19.0 and v2.4.4.2. A specially-crafted .dds can lead to denial of service. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

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
Openimageio Openimageio 2.3.19.0 (including) 2.3.19.0 (including)
Openimageio Openimageio 2.4.4.2 (including) 2.4.4.2 (including)
Openimageio Ubuntu bionic *
Openimageio Ubuntu kinetic *
Openimageio Ubuntu lunar *
Openimageio Ubuntu mantic *
Openimageio Ubuntu trusty *
Openimageio Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References