Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12982",
  "method": "structured",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-12982",
    "summary": "The bmp_read_info_header function in bin/jp2/convertbmp.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0 does not reject headers with a zero biBitCount, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation failure) in the opj_image_create function in lib/openjp2/image.c, related to the opj_aligned_alloc_n function in opj_malloc.c.",
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    "severity": "medium",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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              "repo": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg",
              "type": "GIT",
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                        "fixed": "2.3.0"
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          "versions": [
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12982.json",
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                "source": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7",
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                "source": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7",
                "target": {
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:22:13.890823767Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-26",
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/14/openjpeg-memory-allocation-failure-in-opj_aligned_alloc_n-opj_malloc-c/",
        "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/baf0c1ad4572daa89caa3b12985bdd93530f0dd7",
        "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/983"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387573,
  "published_at": "2017-08-21T07:29:00.373+00:00"
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