CVE-2019-6988

2019-01-2800:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

48.9%

JSON

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	no upstream fix available as of 2023-04-03
sbeattie	potential fix identified in the github issue listed above, needs investigation to see if accurate.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchghostscript< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchghostscript< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchopenjpeg2< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchopenjpeg2< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchopenjpeg2< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchopenjpeg2< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchopenjpeg2< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	ghostscript	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	ghostscript	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	openjpeg2	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	openjpeg2	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	openjpeg2	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	openjpeg2	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	openjpeg2	< any	UNKNOWN