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CVE-2017-14041

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.7% 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 stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

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/100555
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-stack-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pgxtoimage-convert-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/e5285319229a5d77bf316bb0d3a6cbd3cb8666d9
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/997
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100555
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-stack-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pgxtoimage-convert-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/e5285319229a5d77bf316bb0d3a6cbd3cb8666d9
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/997

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