Bug 628420 (CVE-2016-9116)

Summary:	media-libs/openjpeg: NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:2226(jp2) (CVE-2016-9116)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	graphics+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/859
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602180
Whiteboard:	B3 [upstream]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-08-20 18:54:05 UTC

CVE-2016-9116 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9116):
  NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of convert.c:2226(jp2) in
  OpenJPEG 2.1.2. Impact is Denial of Service. Someone must open a crafted j2k
  file.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-08-20 19:02:07 UTC

Affects CLI tool only.

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-08-21 07:30:58 UTC

As said multiple times by mitre, a simple crash in a command-line tool where no library are involved is considered an inconvenience instead of a security issue.