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CentOS 6 / 7 : jasper (CESA-2017:1208)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100174

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

Multiple flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-9560, CVE-2016-10249, CVE-2015-5203, CVE-2015-5221, CVE-2016-1577, CVE-2016-8690, CVE-2016-8693, CVE-2016-8884, CVE-2016-8885, CVE-2016-9262, CVE-2016-9591)

Multiple flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash. (CVE-2016-1867, CVE-2016-2089, CVE-2016-2116, CVE-2016-8691, CVE-2016-8692, CVE-2016-8883, CVE-2016-9387, CVE-2016-9388, CVE-2016-9389, CVE-2016-9390, CVE-2016-9391, CVE-2016-9392, CVE-2016-9393, CVE-2016-9394, CVE-2016-9583, CVE-2016-9600, CVE-2016-10248, CVE-2016-10251)

Red Hat would like to thank Liu Bingchang (IIE) for reporting CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-9583, CVE-2016-9591, and CVE-2016-9600;
Gustavo Grieco for reporting CVE-2015-5203; and Josselin Feist for reporting CVE-2015-5221.

Solution

Update the affected jasper packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8d6572ed

http://www.nessus.org/u?7624de87

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100174

File Name: centos_RHSA-2017-1208.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10249

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5203, CVE-2015-5221, CVE-2016-10248, CVE-2016-10249, CVE-2016-10251, CVE-2016-1577, CVE-2016-1867, CVE-2016-2089, CVE-2016-2116, CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-8690, CVE-2016-8691, CVE-2016-8692, CVE-2016-8693, CVE-2016-8883, CVE-2016-8884, CVE-2016-8885, CVE-2016-9262, CVE-2016-9387, CVE-2016-9388, CVE-2016-9389, CVE-2016-9390, CVE-2016-9391, CVE-2016-9392, CVE-2016-9393, CVE-2016-9394, CVE-2016-9560, CVE-2016-9583, CVE-2016-9591, CVE-2016-9600

RHSA: 2017:1208