CVE-2019-6988

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2019-6988

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2019-01-28T16:29:00

Last Modified Date
2020-08-24T17:37:01

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-770	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:2.3.0:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
6.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178	Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6988
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6988

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:17:19				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 16:56:43	2019-01-28T16:29Z	2019-01-28T16:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 16:56:43		2020-08-24T17:37:01	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 16:56:43		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated