Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 11, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-1499

Description

The JPEG 2000 codec (jp2.c) in OpenJPEG before 1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette index in a CMAP record of a JPEG image, which triggers memory corruption, aka "out-of heap-based buffer write."

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Affected products

Uclouvain/Openjpeg2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.4
- cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OpenJPEG/openjpeg2llm-fuzzy
Range: <1.5

Patches

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References

code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detailnvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.htmlnvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.htmlnvd
openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWSnvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xmlnvd
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004nvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd

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