Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-OPENJPEG2-623741
  • published21 Sept 2016
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

CVE-2015-8871  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg2 package and not the openjpeg2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the opj_j2k_write_mco function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.