CVE-2016-4797 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted JP2 file due to a divide-by-zero error in the OpenJPEG library.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2016-4797?

CVE-2016-4797 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 3 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Divide-by-zero vulnerability in the opj_tcd_init_tile function in tcd.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted jp2 file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2014-7947.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4797?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Uclouvain Openjpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4797?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-4797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4797 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4797, GHSA-g3qh-h448-hf99, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4797.

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