USN-4148-1: OpenEXR vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• openexr - command-line tools for the OpenEXR image format

Details

It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR
image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file,
a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-12596)

Brandon Perry discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed
EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image
file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-9110, CVE-2017-9112, CVE-2017-9116)

Brandon Perry discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed
EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image
file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-9111, CVE-2017-9113, CVE-2017-9115)

Tan Jie discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR
image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file,
a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18444)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

• libopenexr23 - 2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1
• openexr - 2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• libopenexr22 - 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1
• openexr - 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libopenexr22 - 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1
• openexr - 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-12596
• CVE-2017-9110
• CVE-2017-9111
• CVE-2017-9112
• CVE-2017-9113
• CVE-2017-9115
• CVE-2017-9116
• CVE-2018-18444

Related notices

• USN-4339-1: openexr, openexr-doc, libopenexr24, libopenexr22, libopenexr-dev, libopenexr23