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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-01-28 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785

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