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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-27842: Security patch for openjpeg2 (ALAS-2022-1741)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-27842: Security patch for openjpeg2 (ALAS-2022-1741)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/05/2021
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

There's a flaw in openjpeg's t2 encoder in versions prior to 2.4.0. An attacker who is able to provide crafted input to be processed by openjpeg could cause a null pointer dereference. The highest impact of this flaw is to application 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

References

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