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CVE-2019-6988

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2019-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) in opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c, when called from opj_tcd_init_tile in openjp2/tcd.c, as demonstrated by the 64-bit opj_decompress.

Affected products

• uclouvain openjpeg: 2.3.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178

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