CVE-2017-12982

The bmp_read_info_header function in bin/jp2/convertbmp.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0 does not reject headers with a zero biBitCount, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation failure) in the opj_image_create function in lib/openjp2/image.c, related to the opj_aligned_alloc_n function in opj_malloc.c.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-08-21

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Openjpeg (Uclouvain)

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/14/openjpeg-memory-allocation-failure-in-opj_aligned_alloc_n-opj_malloc-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/983
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26