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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27823: Moderate: openjpeg2 security update (ALSA-2021-4251)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27823: Moderate: openjpeg2 security update (ALSA-2021-4251)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/13/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-openjpeg2
  • alma-upgrade-openjpeg2-devel
  • alma-upgrade-openjpeg2-devel-docs
  • alma-upgrade-openjpeg2-tools

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