CVE-2020-27842

medium

Description

There's a flaw in openjpeg's t2 encoder in versions prior to 2.4.0. An attacker who is able to provide crafted input to be processed by openjpeg could cause a null pointer dereference. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.

References

Advisories
Tenable Blogs

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00006.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907513

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-april-2021-critical-patch-update-addresses-257-cves-including-zerologon-cve-2020-1472

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-05

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H