CVE-2019-12973: Medium severity openjpeg vulnerability

Published Jun 26, 2019
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Updated

In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, there is excessive iteration in the opjt1encodecblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616.

Reference: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3 https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503

Affected Software

8 affected componentsFixes available
uclouvain openjpeg=2.3.1
openSUSE Leap=15.0
openSUSE Leap=15.1
Debian Debian Linux=9.0
Oracle Database Server=18c
Oracle Outside In Technology=8.5.4
Oracle Outside In Technology=8.5.5
debian/openjpeg2
2.4.0-32.4.0-3+deb11u12.5.0-2+deb12u12.5.3-2

Event History

Jun 26, 2019
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:07 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:07 PM
Description
Jul 23, 2019
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·06:05 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Jan 11, 2024
Data Sourced
via Launchpad·11:16 PM
Description
Sep 16, 2024
Data Sourced
via Ubuntu·02:10 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Jan 30, 2025
Data Sourced
via Debian·02:48 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
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