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CentOS 6 : openjpeg (CESA-2012:1283)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62127

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated openjpeg packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG 2000 format.

It was found that OpenJPEG failed to sanity-check an image header field before using it. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted image file that could cause an application linked against OpenJPEG to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-3535)

This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Users of OpenJPEG should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a patch to correct this issue. All running applications using OpenJPEG must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected openjpeg packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b4b5f09c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62127

File Name: centos_RHSA-2012-1283.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2012

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2012-3535

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg-libs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3535

BID: 55214

RHSA: 2012:1283