CVE-2019-6988
published 2019-01-28CVE-2019-6988: 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…
PriorityP425medium6.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
1.72%
75.0th percentile
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.
Affected
4 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | openjpeg2 | — | — |
| uclouvain | openjpeg | — | — |
| uclouvain | openjpeg | — | — |
| uclouvain | openjpeg | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM
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Red Hat
openjpeg: denail of service via crafted image file
vendor_redhat·2023-07-03·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2023-39328 [MEDIUM] CWE-400 openjpeg: denail of service via crafted image file
openjpeg: denail of service via crafted image file
A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass existing protections and cause an application crash through a maliciously crafted file.
A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass existing protections and cause an application crash through a maliciously crafted file.
Package: openjpeg (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Out of support scope
Package: openjpeg (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Out of support scope
Package: openjpeg2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Out of support scope
Package: gimp:flatpak/openjpeg2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Will not fix
Package: inkscape:flatpak/openjpeg2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Will n
Debian
CVE-2023-39328: openjpeg2 - A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows...
vendor_debian·2023·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2023-39328 [MEDIUM] CVE-2023-39328: openjpeg2 - A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows...
A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass existing protections and cause an application crash through a maliciously crafted file.
Scope: local
bookworm: open
bullseye: open
forky: open
sid: open
trixie: open
Red Hat
openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
vendor_redhat·2019-01-17·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2019-6988 [MEDIUM] CWE-770 openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
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.
Package: openjpeg (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Will not fix
Package: openjpeg (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Will not fix
Package: openjpeg (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Will not fix
Debian
CVE-2019-6988: openjpeg2 - An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a...
vendor_debian·2019·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2019-6988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-6988: openjpeg2 - An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a...
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.
Scope: local
bookworm: open
bullseye: open
forky: open
sid: open
trixie: open
GHSA
GHSA-hc4f-jc7g-w997: A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988
ghsa_unreviewed·2024-07-09·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2023-39328 [MEDIUM] CWE-400 GHSA-hc4f-jc7g-w997: A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988
A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass existing protections and cause an application crash through a maliciously crafted file.
OSV
CVE-2023-39328: A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988
osv·2024-07-09·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2023-39328 [MEDIUM] CVE-2023-39328: A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988
A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass existing protections and cause an application crash through a maliciously crafted file.
GHSA
GHSA-g9xc-m7jr-85x9: An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-13
CVE-2019-6988 [MEDIUM] CWE-770 GHSA-g9xc-m7jr-85x9: An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2
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.
OSV
CVE-2019-6988: An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2
osv·2019-01-28·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2019-6988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-6988: An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-6988 openjpeg: Out of bound write in function opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2019-01-30·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2019-6988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-6988 openjpeg: Out of bound write in function opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c [fedora-all]
CVE-2019-6988 openjpeg: Out of bound write in function opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects mu
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-6988 openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
bugzilla·2019-01-30·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2019-6988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-6988 openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
CVE-2019-6988 openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
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.
References:
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178
Discussion:
Created openjpeg tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1670983]
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Analysis:
This is essentially a memory exhaustion flaw in the way, the decompressor allocates memory, caused by specially-crafted JPEG2000 file headers. The only impact of this flaw is machine hang, depending on the amount of memory available on the system.
2019-01-28
Published