NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-OPENJPEG-1639766
  • published30 Oct 2016
  • disclosed30 Oct 2016

Introduced: 30 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-9116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg package and not the openjpeg package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.