Input validation error in JasPer - CVE-2014-9029

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Input validation error in JasPer - CVE-2014-9029

Published: December 8, 2014 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33784
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9029
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Multiple off-by-one errors in the (1) jpc_dec_cp_setfromcox and (2) jpc_dec_cp_setfromrgn functions in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted jp2 file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.


Affected software

JasPer
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Slackware Linux
jasper (Alpine package)
jasper
mingw-jasper

How to mitigate CVE-2014-9029

Install update from vendor's website.

JasPer - update to 1.900.2
jasper (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.900.1-r9, 1.900.1-r10
jasper - addressed in versions 1.900.1-15.el5, 1.900.1-29.fc21
mingw-jasper - addressed in versions 1.900.1-24.fc21, 1.900.1-25.el7

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