SB2019013012 - Denial of service in OpenJPEG

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SB2019013012 - Denial of service in OpenJPEG

Published: January 30, 2019 Updated: December 29, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2019013012
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18088)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dreference error in the imagetopnm function of jp2/convert. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5785)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in opj_j2k_setup_encoder function (openjp2/j2k.c). A remote attacker can create a specially crafted bmp image, trigger integer overflow and crash the affected application.



Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References