Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openjpeg2  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1910-OPENJPEG2-584127
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed3 Sept 2018

Introduced: 3 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16375  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. Missing checks for header_info.height and header_info.width in the function pnmtoimage in bin/jpwl/convert.c can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.