Multiple vulnerabilities in JasPer

Published: 2018-04-04 | Updated: 2020-08-08

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2018-9154 CVE-2018-9252
CWE-ID	CWE-20 CWE-617
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	JasPer Client/Desktop applications / Multimedia software
Vendor	The JasPer Project

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU37142

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-9154

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

There is a reachable abort in the function jpc_dec_process_sot in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c of JasPer 2.0.14 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack by triggering an unexpected jas_alloc2 return value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-13745.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

JasPer: 2.0.14

External links

http://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1YuxdfbZrw79kfzoQz0PpxIutZ7pkf_kW
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-03
http://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Reachable Assertion

EUVDB-ID: #VU37295