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CVE-2017-14039

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: uclouvain openjpeg 2.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100550
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-opj_t2_encode_packet-t2-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/c535531f03369623b9b833ef41952c62257b507e
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/992
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100550
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-opj_t2_encode_packet-t2-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/c535531f03369623b9b833ef41952c62257b507e
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/992
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26

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