CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3575
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-03-04
- 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-787
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.
Affected configurations
• uclouvain openjpeg (<= 2.4.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575 Third Party Advisory