Alpine: multiple openjpeg packages: security update to 2.3.0-r1 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400596

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, there is excessive iteration in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function of openjp2/t1.c.
Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.
(CVE-2018-6616)

- Division-by-zero vulnerabilities in the functions pi_next_pcrl, pi_next_cprl, and pi_next_rpcl in
lib/openjp3d/pi.c in OpenJPEG through 2.3.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash). (CVE-2018-14423)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=50f991efc36983c48ef31001e2cb0433b2745479

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=ae0e1afc56d1216820fd8bb0acf8a23f272b111e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400596

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14423

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14423, CVE-2018-6616