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FKIE_CVE-2020-27845

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-01-05 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:09
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
uclouvain openjpeg *
fedoraproject fedora 32
debian debian_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
oracle outside_in_technology 8.5.5
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