CVE-2020-27823: Out-of-bounds Write

May 13, 2021 (updated June 2, 2021)

A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905762
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27823

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