CVE-2012-1499

Published: Apr 11, 2012Modified: Apr 29, 2026

9.3

Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 10.0

Source: NVD

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."

Affected (2)

Products: Uclouvain: Openjpeg

Uclouvain

1 product

Openjpeg

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Uclouvain Openjpeg	Up to 1.4
Uclouvain Openjpeg	Version 1.3

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (16)

http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805912

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330