Vulnerability CVE-2021-3575: Information

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.

Severity: HIGH (7.8)
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: MEDIUM (6.8)
Vector: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published: March 4, 2022
Modified: Nov. 3, 2025
Error type identifier: CWE-787

Fixed packages

Package name
Branch
Fixed in version
Version from repository
Errata ID
Task #
State
libopenjpeg2.0sisyphus2.5.1-alt12.5.4-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3037-2341475Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0sisyphus_e2k2.5.0-alt12.5.4-alt1ALT-PU-2022-4997-1-Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0sisyphus_riscv642.5.0-alt12.5.4-alt1ALT-PU-2022-4954-1-Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0sisyphus_loongarch642.5.1-alt1.12.5.4-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3141-1-Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0p112.5.1-alt12.5.4-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3037-2341475Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0p102.5.0-alt12.5.0-alt1ALT-PU-2022-1892-1300002Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0p10_e2k2.5.0-alt12.5.0-alt1ALT-PU-2022-4992-1-Fixed
libopenjpeg2.0c10f22.5.3-alt12.5.4-alt1ALT-PU-2025-10918-3393308Fixed

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

    1. cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      End including
      2.4.0

      cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*