Bug 425772 – <media-libs/openjpeg-1.5.1: heap-based buffer overflow when processing JPEG2000 image files (CVE-2012-3358)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description taaroa 2012-07-11 06:36:59 UTC]

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way OpenJPEG, an
open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language, performed parsing of
JPEG2000 having certain number of tiles and tilesizes. A remote
attacker could provide a specially crafted JPEG 2000 file, which when
opened in an application linked against openjpeg would lead to that
application crash, or, potentially arbitrary code execution with the
privileges of the user running the application.

Upstream patch:
http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/source/detail?r=1727

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835767
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681075

This issue has been assigned CVE-2012-3358

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-07-11 09:53:09 UTC]

Thanks for the report

[Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2012-07-19 16:30:21 UTC]

CVE-2012-3358 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3358):
  Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the j2k_read_sot function in j2k.c
  in OpenJPEG 1.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
  (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1)
  tile number or (2) tile length in a JPEG 2000 image file.

[Comment 3 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2013-09-29 15:23:37 UTC]

GLSA request filed.

[Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2013-10-10 11:49:00 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201310-07 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-07.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).