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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1614-1 openjpeg2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

22 Dec 2018

Affected Packages:

openjpeg2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 904873, Bug 889683.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6616, CVE-2018-14423.

More information:

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

• CVE-2018-6616

  Excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function (openjp2/t1.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.

• CVE-2018-14423

  Division-by-zero vulnerabilities in the functions pi_next_pcrl, pi_next_cprl, and pi_next_rpcl in (lib/openjp3d/pi.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash).

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your openjpeg2 packages.

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