ALAS-2017-807

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-5139   CVE-2016-5158   CVE-2016-5159   CVE-2016-7163   CVE-2016-9675  

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image could cause an application using OpenJPEG to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5158, CVE-2016-5159, CVE-2016-7163) A vulnerability was found in the patch for CVE-2013-6045 for OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image, when read by an application using OpenJPEG, could cause heap-based buffer overflows leading to a crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2016-9675)

ALAS-2017-807


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-807
Advisory Release Date: 2017-03-22 16:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-03-22 16:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image could cause an application using OpenJPEG to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5158, CVE-2016-5159, CVE-2016-7163)

A vulnerability was found in the patch for CVE-2013-6045 for OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image, when read by an application using OpenJPEG, could cause heap-based buffer overflows leading to a crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2016-9675)


Affected Packages:

openjpeg


Issue Correction:
Run yum update openjpeg to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    openjpeg-libs-1.3-16.9.amzn1.i686
    openjpeg-1.3-16.9.amzn1.i686
    openjpeg-debuginfo-1.3-16.9.amzn1.i686
    openjpeg-devel-1.3-16.9.amzn1.i686

src:
    openjpeg-1.3-16.9.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    openjpeg-devel-1.3-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    openjpeg-debuginfo-1.3-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    openjpeg-libs-1.3-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    openjpeg-1.3-16.9.amzn1.x86_64