Medium 5.5Published Jan 5, 2021

CVE-2020-27841There's a flaw in openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0 in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c.

Updated under an hour ago (Nov 2, 2026, 1:40 AM ET)

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There's a flaw in openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0 in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c. When an attacker is able to provide crafted input to be processed by the openjpeg encoder, this could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest impact from this flaw is to application availability.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-122, CWE-787
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	before 2.4.0	NVD
fedoraproject fedora fedoraproject:fedora	32	NVD
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux	9.0; 10.0	NVD
oracle outside_in_technology oracle:outside_in_technology	8.5.5	NVD

References

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907510	issue-tracking, patch, third-party-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29	third-party-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882	third-party-advisory
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html	patch, third-party-advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html	patch, third-party-advisory

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