Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jasper  (opens in a new tab)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-590209
  • published26 Jul 2020
  • disclosed4 May 2018

Introduced: 4 May 2018

CVE-2018-9154  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jasper package and not the jasper package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a reachable abort in the function jpc_dec_process_sot in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c of JasPer 2.0.14 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack by triggering an unexpected jas_alloc2 return value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-13745.