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CVE-2017-12982
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-21T07:29:00.373 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:04:15.547

Summary

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.

Affected products

uclouvain — openjpeg

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References

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