CentOS 6 / 7 : jasper (CESA-2015:0074)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80969

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated jasper packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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.

Solution

Update the affected jasper packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80969

File Name: centos_RHSA-2015-0074.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 1/26/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2015

Reference Information

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

BID: 72296

RHSA: 2015:0074

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