Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38341

Infinite loop in JasPer - CVE-2017-14229

Published: September 9, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38341

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14229

CWE-ID: CWE-835

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.

There is an infinite loop in the jpc_dec_tileinit function in jpc/jpc_dec.c of Jasper 2.0.13. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Install update from vendor's website.