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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : jasper (SUSE-SU-2022:0562-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 171409

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0562-2 advisory.

 - A Divide-by-zero vulnerability exists in JasPer Image Coding Toolkit 2.0 in jasper/src/libjasper/jpc/jpc_enc.c (CVE-2021-27845)

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

Solution

Update the affected libjasper-devel and / or libjasper4 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188437

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27845

http://www.nessus.org/u?e193521d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 171409

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0562-2.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2023

Updated: 7/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27845

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjasper4, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27845

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0562-2