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Ubuntu: USN-5664-1 (CVE-2017-17479): OpenJPEG vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5664-1 (CVE-2017-17479): OpenJPEG vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/08/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjpeg-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjpip-dec-server
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjpip-server
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjpip-viewer
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjpip-viewer-xerces

References

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