RHEL 6 / 7 : jasper (RHSA-2015:0074)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80930

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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 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0074 advisory.

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

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was 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-2014-8157)

An unrestricted stack memory use flaw was 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-2014-8158)

Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting these issues. oCERT acknowledges pyddeh as the original reporter.

All JasPer users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All applications using the JasPer libraries must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL jasper package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:0074.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80930

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-0074.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/23/2015

Updated: 3/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8157

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jasper-utils

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: 1/22/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8157, CVE-2014-8158

BID: 72296

CWE: 122, 770

RHSA: 2015:0074

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