Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting jasper package, versions <1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.69% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-JASPER-343103
  • published31 Dec 2018
  • disclosed31 Dec 2018

Introduced: 31 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20622  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 jasper to version 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jasper package and not the jasper package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

JasPer 2.0.14 has a memory leak in base/jas_malloc.c in libjasper.a when "--output-format jp2" is used.

CVSS Scores

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