CVE-2018-16376

Publication date 3 September 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the function t2_encode_packet in lib/openmj2/t2.c. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openjpeg	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored see notes
openjpeg2	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

Ubuntu packages are built with BUILD_MJ2:BOOL=OFF, so the affected code isn't compiled

ccdm94

according to the comments available in issue 1328 of openjpeg (https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1328), this issue will not be fixed by upstream, as the vulnerable components were simply removed from the code in pull request #1350. For this reason, xenial and trusty cannot be patched for this issue in package openjpeg.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H