CVE-2020-27844

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

Description

A flaw was found in openjpeg's src/lib/openjp2/t2.c in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide crafted input to openjpeg during conversion and encoding, causing an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system 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-2020-27844

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27844.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202103-19

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.7.2218.45-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

References

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