CVE-2018-6616

MEDIUM

OpenJPEG 2.3.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted BMP File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00013.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1059

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0175
EPSS Percentile 75.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
oracle/georaster 18c
uclouvain/openjpeg 2.3.0
Published Feb 04, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026