A flaw was found in OpenJPEG in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide specially crafted input to the conversion or encoding functionality, causing an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.
CVE-2020-27843 - Medium Severity Vulnerability
Official repository of the OpenJPEG project
Library home page: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg.git
Found in HEAD commit: 706b09e38f53ed9d9d022c131ae6564061484cfd
Found in base branch: master
A flaw was found in OpenJPEG in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide specially crafted input to the conversion or encoding functionality, causing an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.
Publish Date: 2021-01-05
URL: CVE-2020-27843
Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Local - Attack Complexity: Low - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: Required - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: None - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: High
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Origin: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27843
Release Date: 2021-01-05
Fix Resolution: openjpeg2-tools-debuginfo - 2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4;openjpeg2-debugsource - 2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4;openjpeg2-tools - 2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4;openjpeg2-debuginfo - 2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4;openjpeg2-devel-docs - 2.4.0-4;openjpeg2 - 2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4,2.4.0-4
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