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Unscored USN-7083-1 3 CVEs

openjpeg2 vulnerabilities

Published Nov 5, 2024 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain memory
operations when using the command line "-ImgDir" in a directory with a
large number of files, leading to an integer overflow vulnerability. An
attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-29338)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled decompressing certain
.j2k files in sycc420_to_rgb, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow
vulnerability. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening
a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3575)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain memory
operations in the opj2_decompress program. An attacker could potentially
use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-1122)

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS openjpeg2 2.3.1-1ubuntu4.20.04.3
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS openjpeg2 2.4.0-6ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS openjpeg2 2.5.0-2ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS openjpeg2 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u6ubuntu0.1~esm6
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS openjpeg2 2.3.0-2+deb10u2ubuntu0.1~esm3

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-29338
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1122