High
Security advisory
An invalid write access was discovered in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0, triggering a crash in the tgatoimage function. The vulnerability may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14040
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An invalid write access was discovered in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0, triggering a crash in the tgatoimage function. The vulnerability may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.
osv:CVE-2017-14040
Complete source record
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