CVE-2019-12973

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-834

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, 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. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
Oracle Database: 18c
Oracle Corporation Outside In Technology: 8.5.4, 8.5.5
uclouvain openjpeg: 2.3.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108900
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00008.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108900

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