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Fedora 21: Security Advisory for Openjpeg2 Double Free Threat

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update to openjpeg2 in Fedora 21 addresses a critical double free vulnerability, enhancing the overall security of the system.
This update adds a fix for CVE-2015-6581 (double free vulnerability).

Summary

The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 library developed in order to

promote the use of JPEG 2000.

This package contains

* JPEG 2000 codec compliant with the Part 1 of the standard (Class-1 Profile-1

compliance).

* JP2 (JPEG 2000 standard Part 2 - Handling of JP2 boxes and extended multiple

component transforms for multispectral and hyperspectral imagery)

Update Information:

This update adds a fix for CVE-2015-6581 (double free vulnerability).

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1267989 - CVE-2015-6581 openjpeg2: openjpeg: Double free vulnerability in opj_j2k_copy_default_tcp_and_create_tcd [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267989

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update openjpeg2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: openjpeg2
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.1.0
Release: 7.fc21
URL: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg
Summary: C-Library for JPEG 2000

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