Vigil@nce - OpenJPEG: out-of-bounds memory reading via opj_t2_encode_packet
February 2021 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, data reading, denial of service
on service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 22/12/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
opj_t2_encode_packet() of OpenJPEG, in order to trigger a denial
of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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