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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1440-1 Low Severity DoS in Jasper

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2018
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The latest patch for Jasper resolves a Denial of Service vulnerability in openSUSE Leap 42.3, improving both security measures and overall system reliability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for jasper fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-9055: denial of service via a reachable assertion in the

function jpc_firstone in libjasper/jpc/jpc_math.c could lead to

denial of service. (bsc#1087020)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS low severity system fix openSUSE jasper

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-531=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

jasper-1.900.14-182.1

jasper-debuginfo-1.900.14-182.1

jasper-debugsource-1.900.14-182.1

libjasper-devel-1.900.14-182.1

libjasper1-1.900.14-182.1

libjasper1-debuginfo-1.900.14-182.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libjasper1-32bit-1.900.14-182.1

libjasper1-debuginfo-32bit-1.900.14-182.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-9055.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087020

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1440-1
Rating: low
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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