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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-87c15da28c Moderate: openjpeg2 Denial Of Service

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Crucial patch released for Fedora's openjpeg2 toolkit tackles major security vulnerabilities. Immediate installation advised.
This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616

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)

This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616

* Thu Dec 20 2018 Sandro Mani - 2.3.0-10

- Backport patches for CVE-2018-18088, CVE-2018-6616

[ 1 ] Bug #1638558 - CVE-2018-18088 openjpeg2: NULL pointer dereference in the imagetopnm function of jp2/convert.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1638558

[ 2 ] Bug #1542321 - CVE-2018-6616 openjpeg2: Excessive iteration in openjp2/t1.c:opj_t1_encode_cblks can allow for denial of service via crafted BMP file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542321

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-87c15da28c' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 2.3.0
Release: 10.fc29
Summary: C-Library for JPEG 2000

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