Bug 1901998 (CVE-2020-27814)

Summary:	CVE-2020-27814 openjpeg: heap-buffer-overflow in lib/openjp2/mqc.c could result in DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Michael Kaplan <mkaplan>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jaromir.capik, manisandro, nforro, oliver, rdieter
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	openjpeg 2.4.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A heap-buffer overflow was found in the way openjpeg2 handled certain PNG format files. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application crash or in some cases execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-11-09 17:52:30 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1901999, 1902000, 1902001, 1908965, 1908966
Bug Blocks:	1902002

Description Michael Kaplan 2020-11-26 15:01:35 UTC

A heap-buffer overwrites error was discovered in lib/openjp2/mqc.c in
OpenJPEG 2.3.1. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may
lead to remote denial of service or possibly remote code execution.

Comment 2 Michael Kaplan 2020-11-26 15:02:02 UTC

Created mingw-openjpeg2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1902001]


Created openjpeg2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1901999]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1902000]

Comment 4 Michael Kaplan 2020-11-27 13:36:33 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: zodf0055980 (SQLab NCTU Taiwan)

Comment 5 Michael Kaplan 2020-11-27 15:54:00 UTC

External References:

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1283

Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-12-18 04:19:22 UTC

Upstream patches:

https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/15cf3d95814dc931ca0ecb132f81cb152e051bae
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/eaa098b59b346cb88e4d10d505061f669d7134fc

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-11-09 17:52:28 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-27814

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 17:56:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:4251 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4251