RHEL 7 : jasper (RHSA-2018:3253)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118539

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for jasper.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3253 advisory.

- jasper: reachable assertion in JPC_NOMINALGAIN() (CVE-2016-9396)

- jasper: NULL pointer exception in jp2_encode() (CVE-2017-1000050)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL jasper package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3253.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118539

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3253.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper-utils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9396, CVE-2017-1000050

CWE: 476, 617

RHSA: 2018:3253

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