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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-27823: Security patch for openjpeg2 (ALAS-2022-1741)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-27823: Security patch for openjpeg2 (ALAS-2022-1741)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/13/2021
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

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)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openjpeg2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openjpeg2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openjpeg2-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openjpeg2-devel-docs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openjpeg2-tools

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