vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14151: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 5, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An off-by-one error was discovered in opj_tcd_code_block_enc_allocate_data in lib/openjp2/tcd.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow affecting opj_mqc_flush in lib/openjp2/mqc.c and opj_t1_encode_cblk in lib/openjp2/t1.c) or possibly remote code execution.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openjpeg
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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