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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-3575: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-3575: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/04/2022
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openjpeg

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