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Mageia: 2020-0307 Moderate: OpenJPEG Use-After-Free Security Issue

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
OpenJPEG patch for Mageia addresses a severe use-after-free vulnerability. Important update rolled out on August 15, 2021.
jp2/opj_decompress.c in OpenJPEG through 2.3.1 has a use-after-free that can be triggered if there is a mix of valid and invalid files in a directory operated on by the decompresso...

Summary

jp2/opj_decompress.c in OpenJPEG through 2.3.1 has a use-after-free that can be triggered if there is a mix of valid and invalid files in a directory operated on by the decompressor. Triggering a double-free may also be possible. This is related to calling opj_image_destroy twice (CVE-2020-15389).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26953

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00008.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15389

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update double-free use-after-free openjpeg Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/openjpeg2-2.3.1-1.4.mga7

Publication date: 31 Jul 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0307.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-15389

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update double-free use-after-free openjpeg Mageia

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