1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5952-1

USN-5952-1: OpenJPEG vulnerabilities

Publication date

15 March 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJPEG.

Releases

Packages

  • openjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library

Details

Sebastian Poeplau discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs.
If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04
LTS. (CVE-2020-6851, CVE-2020-8112)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user
or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input
file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-15389, CVE-2020-27814, CVE-2020-27823,

Sebastian Poeplau discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs.
If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04
LTS. (CVE-2020-6851, CVE-2020-8112)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user
or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input
file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-15389, CVE-2020-27814, CVE-2020-27823, CVE-2020-27824,
CVE-2020-27841, CVE-2020-27845)

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user
or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input
file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2020-27842, CVE-2020-27843)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 bionic libopenjp3d7 –  2.3.0-2+deb10u2build0.18.04.1
libopenjpip7 –  2.3.0-2+deb10u2build0.18.04.1
libopenjp2-7 –  2.3.0-2+deb10u2build0.18.04.1
16.04 xenial libopenjp3d7 –  2.1.2-1.1+deb9u6ubuntu0.1~esm3  
libopenjpip7 –  2.1.2-1.1+deb9u6ubuntu0.1~esm3  
libopenjp2-7 –  2.1.2-1.1+deb9u6ubuntu0.1~esm3  

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