CVE-2017-14039

high

Published 2017-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the opj_t2_encode_packet function in lib/openjp2/t2.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.3.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.3.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.3.0-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.3.0-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.3.0-1`
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
uclouvain	openjpeg	`{"endExcluding":"2.3.0"}`	`2.3.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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