PT-2017-14805 · Openjpeg+4 · Openjpeg+4

Published 2017-12-08 · Updated 2026-03-29 · CVE-2017-17479

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenJPEG version 2.3.0

Description A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c, causing an out-of-bounds write. This issue may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

Recommendations For OpenJPEG version 2.3.0, consider disabling the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1582

CVE-2017-17479

ECHO-4766-8EBD-083E

MGASA-2019-0004

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1381-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1364-1

USN-5664-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Openjpeg

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 30

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17479 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17479 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/JAZ5ZQP5XJ23SE3ECBP4QQF2CGMK6USD · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2017-17479 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5664-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1364-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9112 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5664-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0004.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17479 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17479 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/HKAGXKPJ2Z4TMUR3TVLTQ7SMTTIYGJKK · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10506 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17479 · Vendor Advisory