HTTP: OpenJPEG JPEG2000 Image Processing Out-of-Bounds Write

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in OpenJPEG. Successful exploitation would result in execution of arbitrary attacker code in the security context of the target user.

Extended Description

A buffer overflow in OpenJPEG 2.1.1 causes arbitrary code execution when parsing a crafted image. An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the jpeg2000 image file format parser as implemented in the OpenJpeg library. A specially crafted jpeg2000 file can cause an out of bound heap write resulting in heap corruption leading to arbitrary code execution. For a successful attack, the target user needs to open a malicious jpeg2000 file. The jpeg2000 image file format is mostly used for embedding images inside PDF documents and the OpenJpeg library is used by a number of popular PDF renderers making PDF documents a likely attack vector.

Affected Products

Uclouvain openjpeg

References

CVE: CVE-2016-8332

Short Name

HTTP:STC:DL:OPENJPEG-IMG-OOB

Severity

Major

Recommended

True

Recommended Action

Drop

HTTP: OpenJPEG JPEG2000 Image Processing Out-of-Bounds Write

Extended Description

Affected Products

References

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