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Red Hat 7 RHSA-2018:3253 Low: Jasper Security Update for DoS

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Jasper update for RHEL classified as minimal severity. Implement required patches to ensure system protection.
An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard.
Security Fix(es):
* jasper: reachable assertion in JPC_NOMINALGAIN() (CVE-2016-9396)
* jasper: NULL pointer exception in jp2_encode() (CVE-2017-1000050)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat DoS low severity jasper

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9396 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000050 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: jasper-1.900.1-33.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-libs-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-libs-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: jasper-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-devel-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-devel-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-utils-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: jasper-1.900.1-33.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-libs-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-libs-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: jasper-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-devel-1.900.1-33.el7.i686.rpm jasper-devel-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm jasper-utils-1.900.1-33.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: jasper-1.900.1-33.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.ppc.rpm jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-33.el7.ppc64.rpm jasper-libs-1.900.1-33.el7.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3253-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3253
Issue date: 2018-10-30

Topic

An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat DoS low severity jasper

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1396978 - CVE-2016-9396 jasper: reachable assertion in JPC_NOMINALGAIN()

1472888 - CVE-2017-1000050 jasper: NULL pointer exception in jp2_encode()

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