High
Security advisory
A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. 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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14041
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.
osv:CVE-2017-14041
Complete source record
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