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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27845: Moderate: openjpeg2 security update (ALSA-2021-4251)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27845: Moderate: openjpeg2 security update (ALSA-2021-4251)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/05/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

There's a flaw in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c of openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0. If an attacker is able to provide untrusted input to openjpeg's conversion/encoding functionality, they could cause an out-of-bounds read. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.

Solution(s)

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

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