CVE-2012-1499
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.3
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."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
- http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805912
- http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
- http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805912
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.