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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : openjpeg (EulerOS-SA-2021-2478)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153641

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the openjpeg package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A flaw was found in OpenJPEGs encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27823)

 - A flaw was found in OpenJPEGs encoder in the opj_dwt_calc_explicit_stepsizes() function. This flaw allows an attacker who can supply crafted input to decomposition levels to cause a buffer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-27824)

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

Solution

Update the affected openjpeg packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?55f4f4d9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153641

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2478.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2021

Updated: 9/24/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27823

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openjpeg-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27823, CVE-2020-27824