CVE-2021-3575: fedoraproject fedora Out-of-bounds Write
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2021-3575 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 1Timeline
- 04-03-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-11-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.55%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
75%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.01 pp
From 1.54% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundOpenjpeg
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu5 products
- blenderAll versions (No fix recorded)
- insighttoolkit4All versions (No fix recorded)
- openjpeg2< 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u6ubuntu0.1~esm6 | < 2.3.0-2+deb10u2ubuntu0.1~esm3 | < 2.3.1-1ubuntu4.20.04.3 | < 2.4.0-6ubuntu0.2 | < 2.5.0-2ubuntu0.2
- qtwebengine-opensource-srcAll versions (No fix recorded)
- texmakerAll versions (No fix recorded)
Mageia2 products
- openjpeg2< 2.4.0-1.2.mga7
- openjpeg2< 2.4.0-1.2.mga8
Alpine1 product
- openjpeg< 2.5.0-r0
Debian1 product
- openjpeg2< 2.5.0-2+deb12u1 | < 2.5.3-1
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL33 | 34
Redhat1 product
- enterprise_linuxEOL6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0
Uclouvain1 product
- openjpeg≤ 2.4.0
7 vendors · 12 products
