SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2018:1364-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110031

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for openjpeg2 fixes the following security issues :

- CVE-2015-1239: A double free vulnerability in the j2k_read_ppm_v3 function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) (bsc#1066713)

- CVE-2017-17479: A stack-based buffer overflow in the pgxtoimage function in jpwl/convert.c could crash the converter. (bsc#1072125)

- CVE-2017-17480: A stack-based buffer overflow in the pgxtovolume function in jp3d/convert.c could crash the converter. (bsc#1072124)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-947=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-947=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110031

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1364-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/23/2018

Updated: 10/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openjpeg2-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenjp2-7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openjpeg2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenjp2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1239, CVE-2017-171479, CVE-2017-17479, CVE-2017-17480

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