Bug 1901998 (CVE-2020-27814) - CVE-2020-27814 openjpeg: Heap-buffer-overflow in lib/openjp2/mqc.c could result in DoS
Summary: CVE-2020-27814 openjpeg: Heap-buffer-overflow in lib/openjp2/mqc.c could resu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2020-27814
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1901999 1908965 1902000 1902001 1908966
Blocks: 1902002
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-26 15:01 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2021-03-15 12:27 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: openjpeg 2.4.0
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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.
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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
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