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Fedora 31: Update for Openjpeg2 Addresses Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important update for openjpeg2 fixes a serious heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability on Fedora systems. Users should install the security patch via dnf
This update backports a patch for CVE-2020-8112.

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 backports a patch for CVE-2020-8112.

* Thu Feb 13 2020 Sandro Mani - 2.3.1-6

- Backport patch for CVE 2020-8112

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.3.1-5

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jan 17 2020 Sandro Mani - 2.3.1-4

- Backport patch for CVE 2020-6851

[ 1 ] Bug #1800536 - CVE-2020-8112 openjpeg2: openjpeg: heap based buffer overflow in pj_t1_clbl_decode_processor in openjp2/t1.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800536

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-ad63f760f4' 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 31
Version: 2.3.1
Release: 6.fc31
Summary: C-Library for JPEG 2000

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