Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting libopenjp2-7-x86-64-v3 package, versions <2.5.3-160000.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-LIBOPENJP27X8664V3-17254031
  • published9 Jun 2026
  • disclosed29 May 2026

Introduced: 29 May 2026

CVE-2025-54874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 libopenjp2-7-x86-64-v3 to version 2.5.3-160000.4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libopenjp2-7-x86-64-v3 package and not the libopenjp2-7-x86-64-v3 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec. In OpenJPEG from 2.5.1 through 2.5.3, a call to opj_jp2_read_header may lead to OOB heap memory write when the data stream p_stream is too short and p_image is not initialized.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1