CVE-2019-6988
openjpeg: DoS via memory exhaustion in opj_decompress
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · January 17, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 3.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling