Medium
Security advisory
There's a flaw in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c of openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0. If an attacker is able to provide untrusted input to openjpeg's conversion/encoding functionality, they could cause an out-of-bounds read. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27845
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
There's a flaw in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c of openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0. If an attacker is able to provide untrusted input to openjpeg's conversion/encoding functionality, they could cause an out-of-bounds read. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.
osv:CVE-2020-27845
Complete source record
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