CVE-2021-3575

HIGH

OpenJPEG < 2.4.0 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in sycc420_to_rgb

Title source: llm

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 56.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-787

Status published

Products (6)

fedoraproject/fedora 33

fedoraproject/fedora 34

redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0

uclouvain/openjpeg < 2.4.0

Published Mar 04, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026