CVE-2021-3272

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
jasper: 2.0.24

References

https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/issues/259
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BZFU2F6UW4L2FJE65WJLWGUIELDWCL7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HD2Y2LT4N5ZWCMKYCUIKB3XODNJLOW3J/
https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/issues/259
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BZFU2F6UW4L2FJE65WJLWGUIELDWCL7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HD2Y2LT4N5ZWCMKYCUIKB3XODNJLOW3J/

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