In OpenJPEG 2.3.1, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-6616. Reference: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3 https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503
Created mingw-openjpeg2 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1732273] Created openjpeg tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1732272] Created openjpeg2 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1732274] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1732271]
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2021:4251 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4251