SB2022102073 - Denial of service in jasper

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2963)

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

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

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)

CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

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