CVE-2022-1122 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-1122

A flaw was found in the opj2_decompress program in openjpeg2...

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in the opj2_decompress program in openjpeg2 2.4.0 in the way it handles an input directory with a large number of files. When it fails to allocate a buffer to store the filenames of the input directory, it calls free() on an uninitialized pointer, leading to a segmentation fault and a denial of service.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

openjpeg2
Vulnerable Versions:
openjpeg2 version 2.4.0 and prior

Timeline

Official Publish: March 29th, 2022
Last Modified: November 3rd, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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