CVE-2016-9118

Description

Heap Buffer Overflow (WRITE of size 4) in function pnmtoimage of convert.c:1719 in OpenJPEG 2.1.2.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
• v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.55%• Percentile: 68%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

  The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

• uclouvain•openjpeg

  2.1.2

References (4)

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/861
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93976