SB2018022224 - Denial of service in OpenJPEG
Published: February 22, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018022224
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) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7648)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the mj2/opj_mj2_extract.c source code file due to insufficient length checks of output prefixes. A local attacker can send a specially crafted prefix, which contains 50 or more characters via the command line, trigger buffer overflow condition and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.