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CVE-2017-14040

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% 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

An invalid write access was discovered in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0, triggering a crash in the tgatoimage function. The vulnerability may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: 2.2.0

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100553
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-invalid-memory-write-in-tgatoimage-convert-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/2cd30c2b06ce332dede81cccad8b334cde997281
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/995
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100553
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-invalid-memory-write-in-tgatoimage-convert-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/2cd30c2b06ce332dede81cccad8b334cde997281
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/995

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