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CVE-2018-5785

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, there is an integer overflow caused by an out-of-bounds left shift in the opj_j2k_setup_encoder function (openjp2/j2k.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• uclouvain openjpeg: 2.3.0

References

• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1057
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1057
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405

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