vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-27823: Improper Input Validation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 13, 2021
Added
May 13, 2021
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openjpeg
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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