Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0838-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0838-01 – OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG2000 format. Security Fix: Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image could cause an application using OpenJPEG to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG, in the j2k_to_image tool. Converting a specially crafted JPEG2000 file to another format could cause the application to crash or, potentially, disclose some data from the heap.

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