CVE-2012-1499

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-04-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The JPEG 2000 codec (jp2.c) in OpenJPEG before 1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette index in a CMAP record of a JPEG image, which triggers memory corruption, aka "out-of heap-based buffer write."

Affected products

uclouvain openjpeg: through 1.4; 1.3

References

http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805912
http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS

Get alerted when CVE-2012-1499 or the next vulnerability affects your stack