Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jasper  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-JASPER-343073
  • published9 Sept 2017
  • disclosed9 Sept 2017

Introduced: 9 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jasper package and not the jasper package as distributed by Ubuntu.

There is an infinite loop in the jpc_dec_tileinit function in jpc/jpc_dec.c of Jasper 2.0.13. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.