Mageia: MGASA-2021-0100 High: Openjpeg Buffer Overflow Threat
mageia
March 2, 2021
A flaw was found in openjpeg's src/lib/openjp2/t2.c in versions prior to 2.4.0
Summary
A flaw was found in openjpeg's src/lib/openjp2/t2.c in versions prior to 2.4.0.
This flaw allows an attacker to provide crafted input to openjpeg during
conversion and encoding, causing an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat
from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system
availability. (CVE-2020-27844).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27986
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27844
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/openjpeg2-2.4.0-1.mga7
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Publication date: 02 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0093.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-27844
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