Out-of-bounds Write Affecting uclouvain/openjpeg package, versions [,2.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.17% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UCLOUVAINOPENJPEG-2318808
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed30 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-14039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade uclouvain/openjpeg to version 2.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the opj_t2_encode_packet function in lib/openjp2/t2.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

CVSS Scores

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