Double free vulnerability in the opj_j2k_copy_default_tcp_and_create_tcd function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG before r3002, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering a memory-allocation failure.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Double free vulnerability in the opj_j2k_copy_default_tcp_and_create_tcd function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG
    before r3002, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to execute
    arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering a memory-allocation
    failure. (CVE-2015-6581)

Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenJPEG, a JPEG 2000 image compression / decompression library, may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed JPEG 2000 file is processed.

This update adds a fix for CVE-2015-6581 (double free vulnerability).

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
401090	Alpine: multiple openjpeg packages: security update to 2.1.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
401090	Alpine: multiple openjpeg packages: security update to 2.1.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
93420	Debian DSA-3665-1 : openjpeg2 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
89349	Fedora 23 : openjpeg2-2.1.0-7.fc23 (2015-a2c2a898f1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
89286	Fedora 22 : openjpeg2-2.1.0-7.fc22 (2015-773ef285ef)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
89164	Fedora 21 : openjpeg2-2.1.0-7.fc21 (2015-1c9ed24c61)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2015-6581

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Tenable Plugins

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