CVE-2018-21010 — OpenJPEG before 2

OpenJPEG before 2.3.1 has a heap buffer overflow in color_apply_icc_profile in bin/common/color.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

OpenJPEG before 2.3.1 has a heap buffer overflow in color_apply_icc_profile in bin/common/color.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-09-05T12:52:29.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T12:19:27.479Z

09References

• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00009.html
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
• www.oracle.com — https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
• github.com — https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/2e5ab1d9987831c981ff05862e8ccf1381e…