CVE-2016-9116 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:2226(jp2) in OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k file.

Published: 2016-10-30

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-9937	NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:2226(jp2) in OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k file.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00581.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93975
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/859
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9116
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9116

History

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Subscriptions

Uclouvain Openjpeg

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-10-30T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:42:10.494Z

Reserved: 2016-10-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9116

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-10-30T22:59:05.667

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-9116

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9116 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-476

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