NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-OPENJPEG2-1028054
  • published30 Oct 2016
  • disclosed30 Oct 2016

Introduced: 30 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-9114  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg2 package and not the openjpeg2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

There is a NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:1943(jp2) of OpenJPEG 2.1.2. image->comps[compno].data is not assigned a value after initialization(NULL). Impact is Denial of Service.