CVE-2019-6988

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-6988
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-28 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Uclouvain Openjpeg 2.3.0 All All All
Application Uclouvain Openjpeg 2.3.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
memory exhauted and hangs long time when use 64bit opj_decompress · Issue #1178 · uclouvain/openjpeg · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory
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