Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37295

Reachable Assertion in JasPer - CVE-2018-9252

Published: April 4, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37295

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-9252

CWE-ID: CWE-617

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: The JasPer Project

Affected software:
JasPer

Detailed vulnerability description

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

JasPer 2.0.14 allows denial of service via a reachable assertion in the function jpc_abstorelstepsize in libjasper/jpc/jpc_enc.c.

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