Infinite loop in OpenJPEG - CVE-2019-12973

Vulnerability identifier: #VU21456

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12973

CWE-ID: CWE-835

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c in Open JPEG. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted .bmp file, pass it to the affected application and perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

OpenJPEG
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
openEuler
openjpeg (Alpine package)
openjpeg2
openjpeg2-debugsource
openjpeg2-devel
openjpeg2-debuginfo
openjpeg2-help

Install updates from vendor's website.

OpenJPEG - update to 2.4.0
openjpeg (Alpine package) - update to 2.3.1-r5
openjpeg2 - update to 2.3.1-9
openjpeg2-debugsource - update to 2.3.1-9
openjpeg2-devel - update to 2.3.1-9
openjpeg2-debuginfo - update to 2.3.1-9
openjpeg2-help - update to 2.3.1-9

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108900
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/8ee335227bbcaf1614124046aa25e53d67b11ec3
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1185/commits/cbe7384016083eac16078b359acd7a842253d503
• https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/v2.4.0/CHANGELOG.md

• OpenSUSE Linux update for ghostscript
• OpenSUSE Linux update for ghostscript
• Denial of service in OpenJPEG
• Infinite loop in openjpeg (Alpine package)
• Gentoo update for OpenJPEG
• openEuler update for openjpeg2