CVE-2020-27845: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

January 5, 2021 (updated July 20, 2021)

There’s a flaw in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c of openjpeg 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

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27845

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