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CVE-2018-21010

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

OpenJPEG before 2.3.1 has a heap buffer overflow in color_apply_icc_profile in bin/common/color.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: before 2.3.1 — fixed in 2.3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: uclouvain openjpeg 2.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/2e5ab1d9987831c981ff05862e8ccf1381ed58ea
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00009.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/2e5ab1d9987831c981ff05862e8ccf1381ed58ea
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00009.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

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