Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-OPENJPEG-452485
  • published30 Aug 2017
  • disclosed30 Aug 2017

Introduced: 30 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-14040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg package and not the openjpeg package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An invalid write access was discovered in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0, triggering a crash in the tgatoimage function. The vulnerability may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.