CVE-2020-27844

A flaw was found in openjpeg’s src/lib/openjp2/t2.c. This flaw allows an attacker to provide crafted input to openjpeg during conversion and encoding, causing an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Mitigation

This flaw can be mitigated by not converting or encoding untrusted input data using openjpeg. For example, just reading a file with openjpeg does not trigger the flaw. Additionally, the fortify protection limits the degree of exploitation that the flaw could be used to achieve.