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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting openjpeg2 package, versions *

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.13% (48th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.5 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-OPENJPEG2-515749
  • published 28 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 28 Jan 2019
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Introduced: 28 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6988 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 openjpeg2.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjpeg2 package and not the openjpeg2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.