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Fedora 25 Critical Update: OpenJPEG2 Null Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the recent OpenJPEG library security patch in Fedora 25 addressing a crucial null pointer flaw for enhanced stability.
Update to version 2.1.2, see https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/v2.1.2/CHANGELOG.md for details.

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:

Update to version 2.1.2, see https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/v2.1.2/CHANGELOG.md for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software update Fedora null pointer OpenJPEG jpeg 2000

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1377345 - CVE-2016-7445 openjpeg2: Null pointer dereference in convert.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377345

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 25
Version: 2.1.2
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg
Summary: C-Library for JPEG 2000

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security advisory critical issue software update Fedora null pointer OpenJPEG jpeg 2000

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