CVE-2024-56826 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-56826

Openjpeg: heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in the OpenJPEG project. A heap buffer overflow condition may be triggered when certain options are specified while using the opj_decompress utility. This can lead to an application crash or other undefined behavior.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Frank Zeng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) for reporting this issue.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Vulnerable Versions:
2.5.3, 0:2.4.0-8.el9

Timeline

Official Publish: January 9th, 2025
Last Modified: November 6th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)