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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-12973

Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 2.60%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.60%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, 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. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616.

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
2.60% probability · 84th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-834
Affected
uclouvain/openjpeg · opensuse/leap · debian/debian linux · oracle/database server · oracle/outside in technology
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.