vulnerability
Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2021-3575)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Mar 4, 2022 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 4, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
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
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2021-3575
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-3575
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616
- URL-https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347
- URL-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/
- URL-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575
- CWE-787
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