NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libjasper4 package, versions <2.0.14-3.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-LIBJASPER4-2703133
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2020

Introduced: 21 Sep 2020

CVE-2018-18873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 libjasper4 to version 2.0.14-3.16.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libjasper4 package and not the libjasper4 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function ras_putdatastd in ras/ras_enc.c.

CVSS Scores

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