NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting uclouvain/openjpeg package, versions [,2.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UCLOUVAINOPENJPEG-2318837
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 Oct 2016
  • creditFB3F15

Introduced: 3 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-7445  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade uclouvain/openjpeg to version 2.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference convert.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via vectors involving the variable s.

CVSS Scores

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