CVE-2020-27841

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Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

There's a flaw in openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0 in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c. When an attacker is able to provide crafted input to be processed by the openjpeg encoder, this could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest impact from this flaw is to application availability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27841

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27841.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-21

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.4.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.0-1
debian debiansidfixed2.4.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.