cve/2017/CVE-2017-14040.md

### [CVE-2017-14040](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14040)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=n%2Fa&color=brighgreen)

### Description

An invalid write access was discovered in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG 2.2.0, triggering a crash in the tgatoimage function. The vulnerability may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/openjpeg-invalid-memory-write-in-tgatoimage-convert-c/
- https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/995

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.