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CVE-2025-54874 (GCVE-0-2025-54874)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-05 14:33 – Updated: 2026-01-22 04:55
VLAI?
Title
OpenJPEG allows OOB heap memory write in opj_jp2_read_header
Summary
OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec. In OpenJPEG from 2.5.1 through 2.5.3, a call to opj_jp2_read_header may lead to OOB heap memory write when the data stream p_stream is too short and p_image is not initialized.
CWE
  • CWE-457 - Use of Uninitialized Variable
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
uclouvain openjpeg Affected: >= 2.5.1, <= 2.5.3
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