CVE-2021-3575

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	OpenJPEG	Afeects v2.4.0 and prior.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957616Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00002.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZ54FGM2IGAP4AWSJ22JKHOPHCR3FGYU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB6AI7CWXWMEDZIQY4LQ6DMIEXMDOHUP/
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3575Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 4, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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