Out-of-bounds Write Affecting openjpeg package, versions <2.5.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-OPENJPEG-8485097
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed4 Mar 2022

Introduced: 4 Mar 2022

CVE-2021-3575  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 openjpeg to version 2.5.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg package and not the openjpeg package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

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