VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-6616
Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.73%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.73%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.73% probability · 76th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- uclouvain/openjpeg · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · oracle/georaster
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1059Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1059Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4109-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4405Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.