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CVE-2017-14151

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An off-by-one error was discovered in opj_tcd_code_block_enc_allocate_data in lib/openjp2/tcd.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow affecting opj_mqc_flush in lib/openjp2/mqc.c and opj_t1_encode_cblk in lib/openjp2/t1.c) 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/100633
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/16/openjpeg-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-opj_mqc_flush-mqc-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/afb308b9ccbe129608c9205cf3bb39bbefad90b9
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/982
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100633
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/16/openjpeg-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-opj_mqc_flush-mqc-c/
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/afb308b9ccbe129608c9205cf3bb39bbefad90b9
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/982

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