UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27843
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UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27843
Published: 5 Jan 2021Last Modified: 17 Oct 2026
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Summary:
Details: A flaw was found in OpenJPEG in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide specially crafted input to the conversion or encoding functionality, causing an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27843, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4685-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4686-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5952-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27843
Affected packages
Package
Name: openjpeg
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/openjpeg?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
1.3+dfsg-4.6ubuntu2
1.3+dfsg-4.7ubuntu1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
