CVE-2017-14039: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the opj_t2_encode_packet function in lib/openjp2/t2.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Uclouvain Openjpeg: before 2.3.0 (fixed in 2.3.0)

Published 2017-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.