Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36437

Memory leak in Fedoraproject products - CVE-2018-19139

Published: November 9, 2018 / Updated: March 13, 2024

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36437

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19139

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within jas_malloc.c when called from jpc_unk_getparms in jpc_cs.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.

Affected software

Debian Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
JasPer

How to mitigate CVE-2018-19139

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105956
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/188
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00003.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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