Out-of-bounds Read Affecting uclouvain/openjpeg package, versions [,2.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UCLOUVAINOPENJPEG-2318840
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed13 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 May 2021

CVE-2020-27824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade uclouvain/openjpeg to version 2.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder in the opj_dwt_calc_explicit_stepsizes() function. This flaw allows an attacker who can supply crafted input to decomposition levels to cause a buffer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

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