CVE-2017-17480: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtovolume function in jp3d/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Uclouvain Openjpeg: version 2.3.0 only

Published 2017-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.