Medium 6.5Published Jan 28, 2019

CVE-2019-6988An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0.

Updated under an hour ago (Nov 2, 2026, 12:23 AM ET)

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An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) in opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c, when called from opj_tcd_init_tile in openjp2/tcd.c, as demonstrated by the 64-bit opj_decompress.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-770
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

uclouvain openjpeg uclouvain:openjpeg	2.3.0	NVD

References

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178	exploit, third-party-advisory

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