[Secure-testing-team] Bug#844553: openjpeg2: CVE-2016-9114

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: openjpeg2
Version: 2.1.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/857

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for openjpeg2.

CVE-2016-9114[0]:
| There is a NULL Pointer Access in function imagetopnm of
| convert.c:1943(jp2) of OpenJPEG 2.1.2. image->comps[compno].data is not
| assigned a value after initialization(NULL). Impact is Denial of
| Service.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9114
[1] https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/857

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore