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CVE-2019-6988

Published: 28 January 2019

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
no upstream fix available as of 2023-04-03

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
openjpeg
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

openjpeg2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was deferred)
focal Deferred

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Deferred

impish Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Deferred

bionic Deferred

disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needed

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was deferred)
mantic Deferred

ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
focal Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
groovy Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

bionic Deferred

xenial Deferred

jammy Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
lunar Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)
mantic Not vulnerable
(uses system openjpeg2)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H