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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2975-1 openjpeg2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

10 Apr 2022

Affected Packages:

openjpeg2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-27842, CVE-2020-27843, CVE-2021-29338, CVE-2022-1122.

More information:

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

• CVE-2020-27842

  Null pointer dereference through specially crafted input. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.

• CVE-2020-27843

  The flaw allows an attacker to provide specially crafted input to the conversion or encoding functionality, causing an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.

• CVE-2021-29338

  Integer overflow allows remote attackers to crash the application, causing a denial of service. This occurs when the attacker uses the command line option "-ImgDir" on a directory that contains 1048576 files.

• CVE-2022-1122

  Input directory with a large number of files can lead to a segmentation fault and a denial of service due to a call of free() on an uninitialized pointer.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your openjpeg2 packages.

For the detailed security status of openjpeg2 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openjpeg2

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