SB2018020402 - Denial of service in OpenJPEG
Published: February 4, 2018 Updated: January 3, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018020402
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6616)
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function, which is defined in the openjp2/t1.c source code file, due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can submit a specially crafted BMP file and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.