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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1579-1 openjpeg2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

20 Nov 2018

Affected Packages:

openjpeg2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-17480, CVE-2018-18088.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in openjpeg2, the open-source JPEG 2000 codec.

• CVE-2017-17480

  Write stack buffer overflow due to missing buffer length formatter in fscanf call (jp3d and jpwl codecs). This vulnerability might be leveraged by remote attackers using crafted jp3d and jpwl files to cause denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

• CVE-2018-18088

  Null pointer dereference caused by null image components in imagetopnm. This vulnerability might be leveraged by remote attackers using crafted BMP files to cause denial of service.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-2+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your openjpeg2 packages.

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