Reachable Assertion in JasPer - CVE-2017-13745

 

Reachable Assertion in JasPer - CVE-2017-13745

Published: August 29, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38407
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13745
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_sot() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack by triggering an unexpected jpc_ppmstabtostreams return value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-9154.


Affected software

JasPer
Oracle Outside In Technology
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container

How to mitigate CVE-2017-13745

Install update from vendor's website.

App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 5.0.14, 11.2.0

External References

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