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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3575: Moderate: openjpeg2 security update (ALSA-2021-4251)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3575: Moderate: openjpeg2 security update (ALSA-2021-4251)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/04/2022
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
02/14/2023

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

Solution(s)

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

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