CWE
834
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2019-12973

First published: Wed Jun 26 2019(Updated: )

In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file. This issue is similar to <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6616">CVE-2018-6616</a>. Reference: <a href="https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3">https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3</a> <a href="https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503">https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503</a>

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
OpenJPEG=2.3.1
openSUSE=15.0
openSUSE=15.1
Debian GNU/Linux=9.0
Oracle Database=18c
Oracle Outside In Technology=8.5.4
Oracle Outside In Technology=8.5.5
debian/openjpeg2
2.4.0-3
2.5.0-2+deb12u1
2.5.0-2
2.5.3-1

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