Security Bulletin: Oracle Outside In Technology (OIT) Security Vulnerabilities

Summary

Oracle Outside In Technology (OIT) Security Vulnerabilities resolved in January 2023 Critical Patch Update.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-27404
**DESCRIPTION:**FreeType is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking in sfnt_init_face function. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/225149 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-37434
**DESCRIPTION:**zlib is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by inflate in inflate.c. By using a large gzip header extra field, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232849 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-43680
**DESCRIPTION:**libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after free created by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238951 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-1122
**DESCRIPTION:**openjpeg is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a issues of freeing uninitialized pointer in src/bin/jp2/opj_decompress.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222865 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

To resolve these vulnerabilities, install one of the patch sets listed below to upgrade to Oracle Outside In Technology (OIT) v8.5.6 BP#4 p34881262 released January 13, 2023.

In the above table, the APAR links will provide more information about the fix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None