CVE-2019-6988

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

EPSS

2%p76

Published

Jan 28, 2019 (Jan 28, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: uclouvain
Products: openjpeg
Weakness: CWE-770
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.7%)

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