A heap-buffer overflow was found in the way openjpeg2 handled certain PNG format files. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application crash or in some cases execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901998
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1283
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html
Source: MITRE
Published: 2021-01-26
Updated: 2021-07-20
Type: CWE-122
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Impact Score: 6.4
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 1.8
Severity: HIGH