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CVE-2021-29338

Public on 2021-04-14
Modified on 2022-10-25
Description

There is a flaw in the opj2_compress program in openjpeg2. An attacker who is able to submit a large number of image files to be processed in a directory by opj2_compress, could trigger a heap out-of-bounds write due to an integer overflow, which is caused by the large number of image files. The greatest threat posed by this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openjpeg2 2022-01-18 21:37 ALAS2-2022-1741
Amazon Linux 2023 openjpeg2 2023-02-17 20:44 ALAS2023-2023-040

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-29338 Mitre: CVE-2021-29338 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity