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Fedora 25: Security Update for mingw-openjpeg2 Critical Fix

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vital patch has been released for Fedora 25 to fix a serious vulnerability in mingw-openjpeg2 that could allow an unexpected overwrite. Make sure to apply this update immediately!
Backport fix for an out-of-bounds write

Summary

MinGW Windows openjpeg2 library.

Update Information:

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical fix out-of-bounds write mingw-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 mingw-openjpeg2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-openjpeg2
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 3.fc25
URL: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg
Summary: MinGW Windows openjpeg2 library

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical fix out-of-bounds write mingw-openjpeg2

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