CVE-2016-9118 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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

Published: 2016-10-30

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: 3.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-4013-1	openjpeg2 security update
EUVD	EUVD-2016-9939	Heap Buffer Overflow (WRITE of size 4) in function pnmtoimage of convert.c:1719 in OpenJPEG 2.1.2.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03124.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93976
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/861
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9118
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9118

History

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Subscriptions

Uclouvain Openjpeg

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-10-30T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:42:10.336Z

Reserved: 2016-10-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9118

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-10-30T22:59:08.603

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:55:32.873

Link: CVE-2016-9118

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9118 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-119

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