CVE-2021-3575

HIGH

7.8

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published3/4/2022

Last Modified11/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedoraredhat:enterprise_linuxuclouvain:openjpeg

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787CWE-787

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616(secalert@redhat.com)

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347(secalert@redhat.com)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/(secalert@redhat.com)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/(secalert@redhat.com)

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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