Moderate: openjpeg security update

Synopsis

Moderate: openjpeg security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openjpeg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG2000 format.

Security Fix(es):

• 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)
  

The CVE-2016-9675 issue was discovered by Doran Moppert (Red Hat Product Security).

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running applications using OpenJPEG must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1363982 - CVE-2016-5139 chromium-browser, openjpeg: Heap overflow in parsing of JPEG2000 precincts
• BZ - 1372219 - CVE-2016-5158 chromium-browser, openjpeg: heap overflow due to unsafe use of opj_aligned_malloc
• BZ - 1372220 - CVE-2016-5159 chromium-browser, openjpeg: heap overflow in parsing of JPEG2000 code blocks
• BZ - 1374329 - CVE-2016-7163 openjpeg: Integer overflow in opj_pi_create_decode
• BZ - 1382202 - CVE-2016-9675 openjpeg: incorrect fix for CVE-2013-6045

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5139
• CVE-2016-5158
• CVE-2016-5159
• CVE-2016-7163
• CVE-2016-9675

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate