CVE-2017-12982

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 21, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Aug 21, 2017

Description

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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7
GLSA-201710-26vendor-advisory
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/issues/983

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