ubuntu-cve-2019-6988
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-01-28 16:29
Modified
2026-05-20 14:51
Summary
Details
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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