CVE-2020-27843

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27843
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-05 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in OpenJPEG in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide specially crafted input to the conversion or encoding functionality, causing an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Oracle Outside In Technology 8.5.5 All All All
Application Uclouvain Openjpeg All All All All
Application Uclouvain Openjpeg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openjpeg2-2.3.1-10.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2021 N/A www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2975-1] openjpeg2 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
1907516 – (CVE-2020-27843) CVE-2020-27843 openjpeg: out-of-bounds read in opj_t2_encode_packet function in openjp2/t2.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: openjpeg2-2.3.1-10.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4882-1 openjpeg2 DEBIAN www.debian.org
OpenJPEG: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202101-29) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159478 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for openjpeg2 (ELSA-2021-4251)
  • 178518 Debian Security Update for openjpeg2 (DSA 4882-1)
  • 179181 Debian Security Update for openjpeg2 (DLA 2975-1)
  • 199240 Ubuntu Security Notification for OpenJPEG Vulnerabilities (USN-5952-1)
  • 239842 Red Hat Update for openjpeg2 (RHSA-2021:4251)
  • 296069 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 31.88.5 Missing (CPUJAN2021)
  • 353122 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for openjpeg2 : ALAS2-2022-1741
  • 670492 EulerOS Security Update for openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2250)
  • 670518 EulerOS Security Update for openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2276)
  • 670551 EulerOS Security Update for openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2309)
  • 752740 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2022:3802-1)
  • 752745 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2022:3801-1)
  • 752823 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openjpeg (SUSE-SU-2022:4082-1)
  • 940171 AlmaLinux Security Update for openjpeg2 (ALSA-2021:4251)
  • 960346 Rocky Linux Security Update for openjpeg2 (RLSA-2021:4251)
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