Denial of service in jasper

Published: 2022-10-20 | Updated: 2024-03-13

Risk	Low
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2022-2963 CVE-2022-40755
CWE-ID	CWE-401 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) Memory leak

EUVDB-ID: #VU68550

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 2.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2963

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

JasPer: 3.0.0 - 3.0.6

External links

http://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/issues/332
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118587
http://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/commit/d99636fad60629785efd1ef72da772a8ef68f54c
http://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/releases/tag/version-4.0.0

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

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

2) Reachable Assertion

EUVDB-ID: #VU69841

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40755

CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.