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oesa-2025-2042

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler

Published

2025-08-15 11:09

Modified

2026-08-06 11:09

Summary

openjpeg2 security update

Details

OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. It has been developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000, a still-image compression standard from the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). Since April 2015, it is officially recognized by ISO/IEC and ITU-T as a JPEG 2000 Reference Software.

Security Fix(es):

OpenJPEG is an open source JPEG2000 encoding and decoder based on C language from Université catholique de Louvain. There is a security vulnerability in the OpenJPEG v2.5.0 version, which originates from the /openjp2/dwt.c component that has a null pointer dereference.(CVE-2025-50952)

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50952	ADVISORY

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        "aarch64": [
          "openjpeg2-2.5.0-8.oe2403sp2.aarch64.rpm",
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          "openjpeg2-devel-2.5.0-8.oe2403sp2.aarch64.rpm",
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  ]
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CVE-2025-50952 (GCVE-0-2025-50952)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-29 17:03

Summary

openjpeg v 2.5.0 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component /openjp2/dwt.c.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-07 20:28 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1505
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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