Use After Free Affecting uclouvain/openjpeg package, versions [,2.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.92% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UCLOUVAINOPENJPEG-2318805
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016
  • creditFeist Josselin

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade uclouvain/openjpeg to version 2.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the opj_j2k_write_mco function in j2k.c , which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

CVSS Scores

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