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Mageia 9: 2025-0012 critical: openjpeg2 heap buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2025
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The recent Mageia update for openjpeg2 resolves heap overflow vulnerabilities, highlighting two critical security flaws.
Heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in bin/common/color.c. (CVE-2024-56826) Heap buffer overflow in lib/openjp2/j2k.c. (CVE-2024-56827)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33905

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AWMGURRKWFOTMCKEBHYWF7HHDJSY7BTR/

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56826

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56827

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow heap overflow Mageia openjpeg2

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/openjpeg2-2.5.0-1.2.mga9

Severity
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Publication date: 16 Jan 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0012.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-56826, CVE-2024-56827

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow heap overflow Mageia openjpeg2

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