PT-2018-2722 · Openjpeg+3 · Openjpeg+3

Yngweijs · Published 2018-10-09 · Updated 2025-09-26 · CVE-2018-18088

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenJPEG version 2.3.0

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference for the red variable in the imagetopnm function of jp2/convert.c. This can lead to a denial of service. The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker.

Recommendations For OpenJPEG version 2.3.0, consider applying a patch or fix to resolve the NULL pointer dereference issue in the imagetopnm function. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the imagetopnm function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1582

BDU:2019-01575

CVE-2018-18088

DLA-1579-1

DSA-4405-1

MGASA-2019-0004

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11120-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03352-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03353-1

SUSE-SU-2025_03352-1

SUSE-SU-2025_03353-1

USN-4109-1

USN-5664-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Openjpeg

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 43

• 🔥 https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1152 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5664-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18088 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18088 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0004.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10506 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2019-0004 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se16-bulletin-20220829SE16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1579-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1 · Vendor Advisory