CVE-2021-3575

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 4, 2022
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Jun 2, 2021

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenJPEGn/a	Afeects v2.4.0 and prior.Affected

References

FEDORA-2021-c1ac2ee5eevendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-e145f477dfvendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html

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