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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27843

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 openjpeg2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 openjpeg2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 openjpeg2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org