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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-27844 Heap buffer overflow in OpenJPEG

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-27844 Heap buffer overflow in OpenJPEG

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
01/05/2021
Created
03/06/2021
Added
03/05/2021
Modified
01/11/2023

Description

A flaw was found in openjpeg's src/lib/openjp2/t2.c in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide crafted input to openjpeg during conversion and encoding, causing an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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