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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References
2- github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785nvdThird Party Advisory
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