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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-27841: OpenJPEG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 5, 2021
Added
Jan 27, 2021
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

There's a flaw in openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0 in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c. When an attacker is able to provide crafted input to be processed by the openjpeg encoder, this could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest impact from this flaw is to application availability.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-openjpeg
Title
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