Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg  (opens in a new tab)


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4.04% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENJPEG-10077932
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed8 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17479  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

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