UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14151

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14151

    Published: 5 Sept 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-14151

    Summary:

    Details: An off-by-one error was discovered in opj_tcd_code_block_enc_allocate_data in lib/openjp2/tcd.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow affecting opj_mqc_flush in lib/openjp2/mqc.c and opj_t1_encode_cblk in lib/openjp2/t1.c) or possibly remote code execution.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14151, https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/16/openjpeg-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-opj_mqc_flush-mqc-c/, https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/afb308b9ccbe129608c9205cf3bb39bbefad90b9, https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/982, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14151

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openjpeg2

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+deb9u2build0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.1.2-1.1+deb9u2build0.1

    Affected versions

    2.1.0-2.1
    2.1.0-2.1ubuntu0.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High