PT-2016-7657 · Openjpeg+3 · Openjpeg+3

Yangy-Xiao · Published 2016-10-30 · Updated 2026-03-29 · CVE-2016-9113

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenJPEG version 2.1.2

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the imagetobmp function of convertbmp.c at line 980. Specifically, image->comps[0].data is not assigned a value after initialization, which remains NULL. This results in a Denial of Service impact.

Recommendations For OpenJPEG version 2.1.2, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the imagetobmp function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2084

CVE-2016-9113

ECHO-CAEA-B43F-D9B2

MGASA-2017-0051

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:2567-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0155-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0185-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0207-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3270-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Openjpeg

Suse

References · 48

• 🔥 https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/856 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Young-X/pocs/tree/master/OpenJPEG_POC · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9113 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2016-9113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0051.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2017:2567-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0051 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9113 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3270-1 · Vendor Advisory