VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-6988

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-01-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) in opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c, when called from opj_tcd_init_tile in openjp2/tcd.c, as demonstrated by the 64-bit opj_decompress.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Primary references