SB2022102073 - Denial of service in jasper
Published: October 20, 2022 Updated: March 13, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022102073
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2963)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the cmdopts_parse() function. A local user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform denial of service attack.
2) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40755)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion in libjasper/base/jas_image.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted image to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/issues/332
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118587
- https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/commit/d99636fad60629785efd1ef72da772a8ef68f54c
- https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/releases/tag/version-4.0.0
- https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/issues/338