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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-27823: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-27823: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/13/2021
Created
01/06/2021
Added
05/13/2021
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openjpeg

References

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