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openjpeg — security advisory
A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
- Products
- openjpeg
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.3.1-r5, 2.3.1-r6
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27823
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2020-27823
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r5
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r5
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
openjpeg
Fixed versions: 2.3.1-r6
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