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TITLE:
OpenJPEG JPEG2000 Image Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50360

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-08-28

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenJPEG, which can be exploited
by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the
library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when decoding images and
can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a
specially crafted file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
No official solution is currently available.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Red Hat Security Response Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
OpenJPEG:
http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/issues/detail?id=170

Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842918

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