There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality, integrity, or application availability.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4235 advisory.

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

  - A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. An out of bounds read issue was found in jp2_decode function     whic may lead to disclosure of information or program crash. (CVE-2021-26926)

  - A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. A null pointer dereference in jp2_decode in jp2_dec.c may lead     to program crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-26927)

  - jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is     an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components. (CVE-2021-3272)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of jasper installed on the remote host is prior to 1.900.1-21.12. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1733 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Jasper tool's jpc encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to craft input provided to     Jasper, causing an arbitrary out-of-bounds write.  The highest threat from this vulnerability is to     confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

    A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. An out of bounds read issue was found in jp2_decode function     whic may lead to disclosure of information or program crash. (CVE-2021-26926)

    A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. A null pointer dereference in jp2_decode in jp2_dec.c may lead     to program crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-26927)

    jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is     an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components. (CVE-2021-3272)

    A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Jasper versions before 2.0.27 handled component     references in the JP2 image format decoder. A specially crafted JP2 image file could cause an application     using the Jasper library to crash when opened. (CVE-2021-3443)

    A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Jasper versions before 2.0.26 handled component     references in CDEF box in the JP2 image format decoder. A specially crafted JP2 image file could cause an     application using the Jasper library to crash when opened. (CVE-2021-3467)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of jasper installed on the remote host is prior to 1.900.1-33. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2018 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Jasper tool's jpc encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to craft input provided to     Jasper, causing an arbitrary out-of-bounds write.  The highest threat from this vulnerability is to     confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

    A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. An out of bounds read issue was found in jp2_decode function     whic may lead to disclosure of information or program crash. (CVE-2021-26926)

    A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. A null pointer dereference in jp2_decode in jp2_dec.c may lead     to program crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-26927)

    jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is     an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components. (CVE-2021-3272)

    A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Jasper versions before 2.0.27 handled component     references in the JP2 image format decoder. A specially crafted JP2 image file could cause an application     using the Jasper library to crash when opened. (CVE-2021-3443)

    A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Jasper versions before 2.0.26 handled component     references in CDEF box in the JP2 image format decoder. A specially crafted JP2 image file could cause an     application using the Jasper library to crash when opened. (CVE-2021-3467)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has jasper packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

  - A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. An out of bounds read issue was found in jp2_decode function     whic may lead to disclosure of information or program crash. (CVE-2021-26926)

  - A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. A null pointer dereference in jp2_decode in jp2_dec.c may lead     to program crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-26927)

  - jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is     an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components. (CVE-2021-3272)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4235 advisory.

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

  - jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is     an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components. (CVE-2021-3272)

  - A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. An out of bounds read issue was found in jp2_decode function     whic may lead to disclosure of information or program crash. (CVE-2021-26926)

  - A flaw was found in jasper before 2.0.25. A null pointer dereference in jp2_decode in jp2_dec.c may lead     to program crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-26927)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-4235 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2021-26927 (#1933860)
    - Fix CVE-2021-26926 (#1922316)
    - Fix CVE-2021-3272 (#1922283)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4235 advisory.

    JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard.

    Security Fix(es):

    * jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c (CVE-2020-27828)

    * jasper: Heap-based buffer over-read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-3272)

    * jasper: Out of bounds read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26926)

    * jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26927)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:4235 advisory.

  - jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c (CVE-2020-27828)

  - jasper: Out of bounds read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26926)

  - jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26927)

  - jasper: Heap-based buffer over-read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-3272)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:14627-1 advisory.

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

  - jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is     an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components. (CVE-2021-3272)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for jasper fixes the following issues :

  - bsc#1179748 CVE-2020-27828: Fix heap overflow by     checking maxrlvls

  - bsc#1181483 CVE-2021-3272: Fix buffer over-read in     jp2_decode

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

According to the version of the jasper package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions     prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write.
    This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability.(CVE-2020-27828)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for jasper fixes the following issues :

bsc#1179748 CVE-2020-27828: Fix heap overflow by checking maxrlvls

bsc#1181483 CVE-2021-3272: Fix buffer over-read in jp2_decode

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-0a6290f865 advisory.

  - The JPC_NOMINALGAIN function in jpc/jpc_t1cod.c in JasPer through 2.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (JPC_COX_RFT assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9396)

  - The jpc_dequantize function in jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9397)

  - The jpc_floorlog2 function in jpc_math.c in JasPer before 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9398)

  - The calcstepsizes function in jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9399)

  - 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. (CVE-2017-13745)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_siz() in jpc/jpc_dec.c:1297 in JasPer     2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13746)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_floorlog2() in jpc/jpc_math.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13747)

  - There are lots of memory leaks in JasPer 2.0.12, triggered in the function jas_strdup() in     base/jas_string.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13748)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_pi_nextrpcl() in jpc/jpc_t2cod.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13749)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_siz() in jpc/jpc_dec.c:1296 in JasPer     2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13750)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function calcstepsizes() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13751)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dequantize() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13752)

  - JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17,     1.900.18, 1.900.19, 1.900.20, 1.900.21, 1.900.22, 1.900.23, 1.900.24, 1.900.25, 1.900.26, 1.900.27,     1.900.28, 1.900.29, 1.900.30, 1.900.31, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8,     2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted image, related to the     jas_image_ishomosamp function in libjasper/base/jas_image.c. (CVE-2017-14132)

  - JasPer 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check     to see if the image contained at least one component resulting in a denial-of-service. (CVE-2017-1000050)

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-2b151590d9 advisory.

  - The JPC_NOMINALGAIN function in jpc/jpc_t1cod.c in JasPer through 2.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (JPC_COX_RFT assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9396)

  - The jpc_dequantize function in jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9397)

  - The jpc_floorlog2 function in jpc_math.c in JasPer before 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9398)

  - The calcstepsizes function in jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-9399)

  - 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. (CVE-2017-13745)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_siz() in jpc/jpc_dec.c:1297 in JasPer     2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13746)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_floorlog2() in jpc/jpc_math.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13747)

  - There are lots of memory leaks in JasPer 2.0.12, triggered in the function jas_strdup() in     base/jas_string.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13748)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_pi_nextrpcl() in jpc/jpc_t2cod.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13749)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_siz() in jpc/jpc_dec.c:1296 in JasPer     2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13750)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function calcstepsizes() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13751)

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dequantize() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12     that will lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13752)

  - JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17,     1.900.18, 1.900.19, 1.900.20, 1.900.21, 1.900.22, 1.900.23, 1.900.24, 1.900.25, 1.900.26, 1.900.27,     1.900.28, 1.900.29, 1.900.30, 1.900.31, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8,     2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted image, related to the     jas_image_ishomosamp function in libjasper/base/jas_image.c. (CVE-2017-14132)

  - JasPer 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check     to see if the image contained at least one component resulting in a denial-of-service. (CVE-2017-1000050)

  - There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an     attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality,     integrity, or application availability. (CVE-2020-27828)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4688-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a crash. (CVE-2018-18873)

    It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-19542)

    It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain JPC encoders. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-27828)

    It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to expose sensitive information or cause a crash. (CVE-2017-9782)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update backports a patch for CVE-2020-27828.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

JasPer NEWS :

Fix CVE-2020-27828, heap-overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
195467	RHEL 7 : jasper (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195364	RHEL 5 : jasper (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195350	RHEL 6 : jasper (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
185007	Rocky Linux 8 : jasper (RLSA-2021:4235)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
174621	Amazon Linux AMI : jasper (ALAS-2023-1733)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
174570	Amazon Linux 2 : jasper (ALAS-2023-2018)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
167462	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : jasper Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2022-0083)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
157518	AlmaLinux 8 : jasper (ALSA-2021:4235)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
155398	Oracle Linux 8 : jasper (ELSA-2021-4235)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
155089	RHEL 8 : jasper (RHSA-2021:4235)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
155051	CentOS 8 : jasper (CESA-2021:4235)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
150622	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : jasper (SUSE-SU-2021:14627-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
146745	openSUSE Security Update : jasper (openSUSE-2021-303)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
146744	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : jasper (EulerOS-SA-2021-1308)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
146563	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : jasper (SUSE-SU-2021:0489-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
146553	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : jasper (SUSE-SU-2021:0488-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
146125	Fedora 32 : jasper (2021-0a6290f865)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
145784	Fedora 33 : jasper (2021-2b151590d9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
145216	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : jasper (EulerOS-SA-2021-1077)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
144849	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : JasPer vulnerabilities (USN-4688-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
144479	Fedora 32 : mingw-jasper (2020-596e40f29c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
144474	Fedora 33 : mingw-jasper (2020-c549cf2462)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
144174	FreeBSD : jasper -- heap overflow vulnerability (85349584-3ba4-11eb-919d-08002728f74c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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