CVE-2021-3575 Memory corruption in OpenJPEG

What is CVE-2021-3575?

CVE-2021-3575 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 4 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-3575?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Uclouvain Openjpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2021-3575?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2021-3575 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3575 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2021-3575, AZL-44643, CLSA-2026-1787588007, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3575, GHSA-j3vw-4g3g-wvjc, JLSEC-2026-546 and 3 more.