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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4148-1 Critical: OpenEXR Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A series of security flaws in OpenEXR for various Ubuntu releases exposes systems to potential exploits that may allow remote code execution and pose risks of denial of service attacks.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenEXR.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenEXR.

Software Description:

- openexr: command-line tools for the OpenEXR image format

Details:

It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR

image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file,

a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute

arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-12596)

Brandon Perry discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed

EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image

file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly

execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

(CVE-2017-9110, CVE-2017-9112, CVE-2017-9116)

Brandon Perry discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed

EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image

file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, o...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution OpenEXR Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 19.04

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libopenexr23                    2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1
  openexr                         2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libopenexr22                    2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1
  openexr                         2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libopenexr22                    2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1
  openexr                         2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4148-1

CVE-2017-12596, CVE-2017-9110, CVE-2017-9111, CVE-2017-9112,

CVE-2017-9113, CVE-2017-9115, CVE-2017-9116, CVE-2018-18444

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October 07, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution OpenEXR Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 19.04

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1

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