A flaw was found in the OpenJPEG project. A heap buffer overflow condition may be triggered when certain options are specified while using the opj_decompress utility. This can lead to an application crash or other undefined behavior.

According to the versions of the openjpeg2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    A flaw was found in the OpenJPEG project. A heap buffer overflow condition may be triggered when certain     options are specified while using the opj_decompress utility.  This can lead to an application crash or     other undefined behavior.(CVE-2024-56827)

    A flaw was found in the OpenJPEG project. A heap buffer overflow condition may be triggered when certain     options are specified while using the opj_decompress utility.  This can lead to an application crash or     other undefined behavior.(CVE-2024-56826)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS openjpeg2 security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of openjpeg2 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.0-5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2773 advisory.

    openjpeg: heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c (CVE-2024-56826)

    openjpeg: heap buffer overflow in lib/openjp2/j2k.c (CVE-2024-56827)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in the OpenJPEG project. A heap buffer overflow condition may be triggered when certain     options are specified while using the opj_decompress utility. This can lead to an application crash or     other undefined behavior. (CVE-2024-56826)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-830 advisory.

    openjpeg: heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c (CVE-2024-56826)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7223-1 advisory.

    Frank Zeng discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled memory when using the decompression utility. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2024-56826, CVE-2024-56827)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0040-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-56826: Fixed heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c (bsc#1235029)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0044-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-56826: Fixed heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c (bsc#1235029)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234179	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-1365)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
234169	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-1366)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
233624	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-1337)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
233619	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-1320)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
232969	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-1301)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
232961	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : openjpeg2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-1302)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
232350	Amazon Linux 2 : openjpeg2 (ALAS-2025-2773)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
230654	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-56826	Nessus	Misc.	medium
215025	Amazon Linux 2023 : openjpeg2, openjpeg2-devel, openjpeg2-tools (ALAS2023-2025-830)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
214505	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : OpenJPEG vulnerabilities (USN-7223-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
213693	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2025:0040-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
213690	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2025:0044-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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