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CVE-2017-17480
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- 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: 2017-12-08 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtovolume function in jp3d/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
- uclouvain openjpeg: 2.3.0
References
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1044
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00018.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1044
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00018.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405
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