Bug 1950101 (CVE-2021-29338) - CVE-2021-29338 openjpeg: out-of-bounds write due to an integer overflow in opj_compress.c
Summary: CVE-2021-29338 openjpeg: out-of-bounds write due to an integer overflow in op...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-29338
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1950102 1950103 1950104 1950105 Red Hat1951332 Red Hat1951333 Red Hat1951697 Red Hat1951698
Blocks: Embargoed1943659
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Reported: 2021-04-15 18:28 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-04-17 21:18 UTC (History)
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There is a flaw in the opj2_compress program in openjpeg2. An attacker who is able to submit a large number of image files to be processed in a directory by opj2_compress, could trigger a heap out-of-bounds write due to an integer overflow, which is caused by the large number of image files. The greatest threat posed by this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-02 23:29:11 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4251 0 None None None 2021-11-09 17:56:44 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-15 18:28:11 UTC 
Integer Overflow in OpenJPEG v2.4.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application, causing a Denial of Service (DoS). This occurs when the attacker uses the command line option "-ImgDir" on a directory that contains 1048576 files.

Reference:
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1338
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-15 18:28:41 UTC 
Created mingw-openjpeg2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1950103]


Created openjpeg tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1950104]


Created openjpeg2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1950102]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1950105]
Comment 4 Todd Cullum 2021-04-19 22:58:53 UTC 
This is not a "remote" attack because the opj2_compress tool is not bound to the network. If someone or script is taking remotely-retrieved files and then running them against opj2_compress, it should not be considered a remote attack from the aspect of the opj2_compress tool itself.
Comment 6 Todd Cullum 2021-04-19 23:06:29 UTC 
Statement:

This flaw affects the opj2_compress utility but is not in the openjpeg2 library. Therefore, the attack vector is local to the opj2_compress utility and would require an attacker to convince a user to open a directory with an extremely large number of files using opj2_compress, or a script to be feeding such arbitrary, untrusted files to opj2_compress.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 17:56:42 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
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