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CVE-2018-6616

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.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: 8.0, 9.0
• Oracle Georaster: 18c
• uclouvain openjpeg: 2.3.0

References

• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1059
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00013.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1059
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00013.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

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