CVE-2017-17480

Publication date 8 December 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtovolume function in jp3d/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openjpeg 22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
openjpeg2 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.3.0-2build0.18.04.1
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u3build0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

ccdm94

The commit that fixed this CVE also fixes CVE-2017-17479. Xenial and trusty in package openjpeg are not affected by this CVE, eventhough they are affected by CVE-2017-17479. That is because function pgxtovolume does not exist in openjpeg for versions 1.5.2 and 1.3. Function pgxtoimage does exist and includes the vulnerable code, fixed by commit 0bc90e4062a.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
openjpeg
openjpeg2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4109-1
    • OpenJPEG vulnerabilities
    • 21 August 2019

Other references