CVE-2017-12982

The bmpreadinfoheader 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 opjimagecreate function in lib/openjp2/image.c, related to the opjalignedallocn function in opj_malloc.c.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg

Events

Introduced

Fixed

081de4b15f54cb4482035b7bf5e3fb443e4bc84b

Fixed

baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7

Database specific

{
    "source": [
        "CPE_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.3.0"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.2.0

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/bin/jp2/convertbmp.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "32483295321228823534696507974797187153",
                "296002183442861096462899504896635776348",
                "37440565878080639574652199070067340010",
                "219591937768648570144702747136129848003"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-12982-4cebdc3d"
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "bmp_read_info_header",
            "file": "src/bin/jp2/convertbmp.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "105053355577131966731431843433851090146",
            "length": 5928.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-12982-5279c3de"
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12982.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-04-11T16:52:02Z"