SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2022:3801-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166691

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3801-1 advisory.

- CVE-2018-21010: Fixed heap buffer overflow in color_apply_icc_profile in bin/common/color.c (bsc#1149789).
- CVE-2020-27824: Fixed OOB read in opj_dwt_calc_explicit_stepsizes() (bsc#1179821).
- CVE-2020-27842: Fixed null pointer dereference in opj_tgt_reset function in lib/openjp2/tgt.c (bsc#1180043).
- CVE-2020-27843: Fixed out-of-bounds read in opj_t2_encode_packet function in openjp2/t2.c (bsc#1180044).
- CVE-2020-27845: Fixed heap-based buffer over-read in functions opj_pi_next_rlcp, opj_pi_next_rpcl and opj_pi_next_lrcp in openjp2/pi.c (bsc#1180046).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libopenjp2-7 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166691

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3801-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/28/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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-2018-21010

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenjp2-7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-21010, CVE-2020-27824, CVE-2020-27842, CVE-2020-27843, CVE-2020-27845

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3801-1

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