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Red Hat: CVE-2021-3575: CVE-2021-3575 openjpeg: heap-buffer-overflow in color.c may lead to DoS or arbitrary code execution (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-3575: CVE-2021-3575 openjpeg: heap-buffer-overflow in color.c may lead to DoS or arbitrary code execution (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/09/2021
Created
11/11/2021
Added
11/10/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2
  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2-devel-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2-tools
  • redhat-upgrade-openjpeg2-tools-debuginfo

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