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
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UCLOUVAINOPENJPEG-2318859
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Jan 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-27845  (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. There's a flaw in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c of openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0. If an attacker is able to provide untrusted input to openjpeg's conversion/encoding functionality, they could cause an out-of-bounds read. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.

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