Vulnerability CVE-2020-27814


Published: 2021-01-26

Description:
A heap-buffer overflow was found in the way openjpeg2 handled certain PNG format files. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application crash or in some cases execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application.

Type:

CWE-122

(Heap-based Buffer Overflow)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Uclouvain -> Openjpeg 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901998
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1283
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29

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