vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17480: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2017
Added
Nov 28, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtovolume function in jp3d/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openjpeg
Title
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