Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-4796 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
uclouvain
fedoraproject
CWE-119
nessus

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the color_cmyk_to_rgb in common/color.c in OpenJPEG before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted .j2k file.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-D2AB705E4A.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to version 2.1.1, see https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/releases/tag/v2.1.1 for details. Fixes: CVE-2016-3183, CVE-2016-3181, CVE-2016-3182, CVE-2016-4796, CVE-2016-4797, CVE-2015-8871 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-18
    plugin id92333
    published2016-07-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92333
    titleFedora 23 : openjpeg2 (2016-d2ab705e4a)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-ABDC548F46.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to version 2.1.1, see https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/releases/tag/v2.1.1 for details. Fixes: CVE-2016-3183, CVE-2016-3181, CVE-2016-3182, CVE-2016-4796, CVE-2016-4797, CVE-2015-8871 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-15
    plugin id92280
    published2016-07-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92280
    titleFedora 24 : openjpeg2 (2016-abdc548f46)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-14D8F9B4ED.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to version 2.1.1, see https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/releases/tag/v2.1.1 for details. Fixes: CVE-2016-3183, CVE-2016-3181, CVE-2016-3182, CVE-2016-4796, CVE-2016-4797, CVE-2015-8871 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-19
    plugin id92385
    published2016-07-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92385
    titleFedora 23 : mingw-openjpeg2 (2016-14d8f9b4ed)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-8FA7CED365.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to version 2.1.1, see https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/releases/tag/v2.1.1 for details. Fixes: CVE-2016-3183, CVE-2016-3181, CVE-2016-3182, CVE-2016-4796, CVE-2016-4797, CVE-2015-8871 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-19
    plugin id92389
    published2016-07-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92389
    titleFedora 24 : mingw-openjpeg2 (2016-8fa7ced365)