Critical
Security advisory
In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17479
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- 31 Oct 2026, 09:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.
osv:CVE-2017-17479
Complete source record
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