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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-39327

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

A Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability was found in openjpeg package. Maliciously constructed pictures can cause the program to enter a large loop and continuously print warning messages on the terminal.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published