Security advisory

{
  "id": "0515c0942edf303ba551ba2391fc1d582fe652c1a9b0d7f5c17f0a4bb9172728",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-3575",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-3575",
    "summary": "A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-3575",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-3575",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-3575"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "37ac30ceff6640bbab502388c5e0fa0bff23f505"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2.4.0",
            "v2.3.1",
            "v2.3.0",
            "v2.2.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-3575.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:49.610657179Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/",
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616",
        "https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "34"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-3575",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384669,
  "published_at": "2022-03-04T18:15:08.193+00:00"
}