[Secure-testing-team] Bug#874117: openjpeg2: CVE-2017-14040: invalid memory write in tgatoimage

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: openjpeg2
Version: 2.1.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/995

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for openjpeg2.

CVE-2017-14040[0]:
| An invalid write access was discovered in bin/jp2/convert.c in OpenJPEG
| 2.2.0, triggering a crash in the tgatoimage function. The vulnerability
| may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other
| impact.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14040
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14040
[1] https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/995
[2] https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/2cd30c2b06ce332dede81cccad8b334cde997281

Regards,
Salvatore