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Fedora: 2017-3dba8a70ce Critical: Jasper Buffer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2017
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Security fix for CVE-2016-8654 Security fix for CVE-2016-9262

Summary

This package contains an implementation of the image compression

standard JPEG-2000, Part 1. It consists of tools for conversion to and

from the JP2 and JPC formats.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-8654 Security fix for CVE-2016-9262

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security advisory update buffer overflow critical Fedora jasper

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1393882 - CVE-2016-9262 jasper: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities leading to use after free https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393882 [ 2 ] Bug #1399167 - CVE-2016-8654 jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in QMFB code in JPC codec https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399167

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade jasper' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: jasper
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.900.13
Release: 3.fc25
URL: https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/
Summary: Implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard, Part 1

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow critical Fedora jasper

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