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Critical
CVE-2012-1499
The JPEG 2000 codec (jp2.c) in OpenJPEG before 1.5 allows...
Vulnerability 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."
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805912
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654
- http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
- http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 11th, 2012
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.