Reachable Assertion in JasPer - CVE-2016-9396
Published: November 2, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU15698
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9396
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: The JasPer Project
Affected software:
JasPer
JasPer
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9396
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/17/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3253
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/16/jasper-multiple-assertion-failure
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396978
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485272
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/
- https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/50