CVE-2021-3575 | BDVDB-2026-171102 Detail
OpenJPEG
Description#
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
References#
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.