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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4109-1 Moderate: OpenJPEG Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4110-1 highlights vulnerabilities in libcurl impacting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJPEG.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJPEG.

Software Description:

- openjpeg2: JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library

Details:

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain PGX files. An

attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly

remote code execution. (CVE-2017-17480)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker

could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14423)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain PNM files. An

attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2018-18088)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain BMP files. An

attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2018-5785, CVE-2018-6616)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution ubuntu openjpeg

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libopenjp2-7                    2.3.0-2build0.18.04.1
  libopenjp3d7                    2.3.0-2build0.18.04.1
  libopenjpip7                    2.3.0-2build0.18.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4109-1

CVE-2017-17480, CVE-2018-14423, CVE-2018-18088, CVE-2018-5785,

CVE-2018-6616

August 21, 2019

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution ubuntu openjpeg

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjpeg2/2.3.0-2build0.18.04.1

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