PT-2019-18401 · Openjpeg+2 · Openjpeg+2

Yanxxd · Published 2019-01-28 · Updated 2025-08-18 · CVE-2019-6988

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenJPEG version 2.3.0

Description An issue in OpenJPEG allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through attempted excessive memory allocation. This occurs in the opj calloc function in openjp2/opj malloc.c when called from opj tcd init tile in openjp2/tcd.c. This issue is demonstrated by the 64-bit opj decompress.

Recommendations For OpenJPEG version 2.3.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1582

ALT-PU-2020-3564

ALT-PU-2022-1865

ALT-PU-2022-1892

CVE-2019-6988

ECHO-FAF1-69E7-5BB9

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Openjpeg

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6988 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6988 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178#issuecomment-1789970548 · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/132686 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1810678738671051005 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/85530 · Telegram Post
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/106785 · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/353 · Telegram Post