Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:0559 :
An update for openjpeg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG2000 format.
Security Fix(es) :
* Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image could cause an application using OpenJPEG to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5158, CVE-2016-5159, CVE-2016-7163)
* A vulnerability was found in the patch for CVE-2013-6045 for OpenJPEG. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image, when read by an application using OpenJPEG, could cause heap-based buffer overflows leading to a crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2016-9675)
The CVE-2016-9675 issue was discovered by Doran Moppert (Red Hat Product Security).
Solution
Update the affected openjpeg packages.