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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-12973: Excessive Iteration

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jun 26, 2019

Added

Sep 23, 2020

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openjpeg

References

CVE-2019-12973
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-12973
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-12973
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-4548
CWE-834
EUVD-EUVD-2019-4548

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