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Fedora 24: Critical Buffer Overflow Security Advisory for CVE-2016-7163

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for correcting out-of-range write vulnerabilities in openjpeg2 on Fedora 24 to remediate CVE-2016-7163 concerns.
Backport fix for an out-of-bounds write

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:

Backport fix for an out-of-bounds write. ---- Security fix for CVE-2016-7163

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow security fix out-of-bounds openjpeg2

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1374337 - openjpeg: Heap buffer overflow in opj_dwt_interleave_v in dwt.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374337 [ 2 ] Bug #1374329 - CVE-2016-7163 openjpeg: Integer overflow in opj_pi_create_decode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374329

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 24
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 3.fc24
URL: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg
Summary: C-Library for JPEG 2000

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow security fix out-of-bounds openjpeg2

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