CVE-2012-1499
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 5.1%EU EUVD
The JPEG 2000 codec (jp2.c) in OpenJPEG before 1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette index in a CMAP record of a JPEG image, which triggers memory corruption, aka "out-of heap-based buffer write."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 5.1% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1517)
- Published
- April 11, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1517 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- uclouvain / openjpeg
- uclouvain / openjpeg
References
- http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1330
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
- http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52654
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805912
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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