PT-2017-14805

CVE-2017-17479

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Published

2017-12-08

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Updated

2026-08-25

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenJPEG version 2.3.0
Description A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c, causing an out-of-bounds write. This issue may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.
Recommendations For OpenJPEG version 2.3.0, consider disabling the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-17479
ALT-PU-2019-1582
ECHO-4766-8EBD-083E
MGASA-2019-0004
OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1381-1
SUSE-SU-2018:1364-1
USN-5664-1
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