CVE-2021-3575

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3575
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-04 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:41:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Uclouvain Openjpeg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1957616 – (CVE-2021-3575) CVE-2021-3575 openjpeg: heap-buffer-overflow in color.c may lead to DoS or arbitrary code execution MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Heap-buffer-overflow in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb · Issue #1347 · uclouvain/openjpeg · GitHub MISC github.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE-2021-3575 | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: openjpeg2-2.3.1-11.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: openjpeg2-2.3.1-11.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mingw-openjpeg2-2.4.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mingw-openjpeg2-2.4.0-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
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)
  • 239842 Red Hat Update for openjpeg2 (RHSA-2021:4251)
  • 281630 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-e145f477df)
  • 281631 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-c1ac2ee5ee)
  • 353122 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for openjpeg2 : ALAS2-2022-1741
  • 354833 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for openjpeg : ALAS2-2023-1999
  • 502228 Alpine Linux Security Update for openjpeg
  • 504233 Alpine Linux Security Update for openjpeg
  • 940171 AlmaLinux Security Update for openjpeg2 (ALSA-2021:4251)
  • 960346 Rocky Linux Security Update for openjpeg2 (RLSA-2021:4251)
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