CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-27814
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
Description
A heap-buffer overflow was found in the way openjpeg2 handled certain PNG format files. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application crash or in some cases execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application.
Affected configurations
• uclouvain openjpeg (<= 1.5.1)
• uclouvain openjpeg (>= 2.0.0 < 2.4.0)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901998 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1283 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901998 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1283 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html Third Party Advisory