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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.62% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UCLOUVAINOPENJPEG-2318826
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed8 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17480  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for uclouvain/openjpeg.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtovolume function in jp3d/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

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