SB2018103010 - Red Hat update for jasper
Published: October 30, 2018
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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.