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Fedora 23 OpenJPEG2 Moderate Advisory: Use-After-Free Risk

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vital patch for the OpenJPEG framework on Fedora 23 has been issued to mitigate a use-after-free vulnerability that poses security risks.
Security fix for use after 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:

Security fix for use after free vulnerability

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1263359 - openjpeg: Use-after-free vulnerability in opj_j2k_write_mco https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263359

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 .

Name: openjpeg2
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2.1.0
Release: 6.fc23
Summary: C-Library for JPEG 2000

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