CVE-2017-2812: Kakadusoftware Kakadu SDK

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A code execution vulnerability exists in the kdu_buffered_expand function of the Kakadu SDK 7.9. A specially crafted JPEG 2000 file can be read by the program and can lead to an out of bounds write causing an exploitable condition to arise.

Affected products

• Kakadusoftware Kakadu SDK: version 7.9 only

Published 2018-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.