SB20170807104 - NULL pointer dereference in jasper (Alpine package)
Published: August 7, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB20170807104
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000050)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check to see if the image contained at least one component. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted input and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=776c741bdc671ff8f5264a0a74a356ef1f1e97bb
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=95ec06e8ff528eb0f8225fe2db60c11035f1a1f5
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=97e3737831e997fb44f92599957c222e0757b1e6
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e7a734905c14f48e5440a599880af469abb5ec4e
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=1b7174583b49104dca2f9f09b72e3dcb5244fb32
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9d20dfb4b70c35a10a26afd2ddfb7f487ee2eeb9
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=a04d4f22c6082a8717e7108481c8fe48e95c534f
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=cf17d6fc9fa94f652d8a1582d77d32ed03407167