CVE-2018-16376

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the function t2_encode_packet in lib/openmj2/t2.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Affected
sid Affected
forky Affected
bullseye Affected
bookworm Affected
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 2.5.0-1

References

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.