SB2018103010 - Red Hat update for jasper



SB2018103010 - Red Hat update for jasper

Published: October 30, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018103010
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9396)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to reachable assertion in JPC_NOMINALGAIN function in jpc/jpc_t1cod.c in JasPer through 2.0.12. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack via unspecified vectors.


2) 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.