VYPR
Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-6988

CVE-2019-6988

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.

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Affected products

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  • Uclouvain/OpenjpegOSV2 versions
    v2.2.0, v2.3.0+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: v2.2.0, v2.3.0
    • cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Range: =2.3.0

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