vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-6988: openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 28, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) in opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c, when called from opj_tcd_init_tile in openjp2/tcd.c, as demonstrated by the 64-bit opj_decompress.

Solution

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