Excessive Iteration The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg2 (opens in a new tab)
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- published1 Jul 2019
- disclosed26 Jun 2019
Introduced: 26 Jun 2019
CVE-2019-12973 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg2 package and not the openjpeg2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-12973
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12973
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108900
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html