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RedHat 8: RHSA-2021-4235 Moderate: Jasper Buffer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent security patch from Red Hat for RHEL 8 focuses on addressing severe vulnerabilities in Jasper, specifically concerning risks linked to buffer overflows and improper memory accesses.
An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c (CVE-2020-27828)
* jasper: Heap-based buffer over-read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-3272)
* jasper: Out of bounds read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26926)
* jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26927)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact out-of-bounds read jasper

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27828 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3272 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26926 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26927 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: jasper-2.0.14-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: jasper-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.aarch64.rpm jasper-debugsource-2.0.14-5.el8.aarch64.rpm jasper-libs-2.0.14-5.el8.aarch64.rpm jasper-libs-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.aarch64.rpm jasper-utils-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: jasper-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm jasper-debugsource-2.0.14-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm jasper-libs-2.0.14-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm jasper-libs-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm jasper-utils-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: jasper-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.s390x.rpm jasper-debugsource-2.0.14-5.el8.s390x.rpm jasper-libs-2.0.14-5.el8.s390x.rpm jasper-libs-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.s390x.rpm jasper-utils-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: jasper-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.i686.rpm jasper-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.x86_64.rpm jasper-debugsource-2.0.14-5.el8.i686.rpm jasper-debugsource-2.0.14-5.el8.x86_64.rpm jasper-libs-2.0.14-5.el8.i686.rpm jasper-libs-2.0.14-5.el8.x86_64.rpm jasper-libs-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.i686.rpm jasper-libs-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.x86_64.rpm jasper-utils-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.i686.rpm jasper-utils-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8):
aarch64: jasper-debuginfo-2.0.14-5.el8.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4235-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4235
Issue date: 2021-11-09

Topic

An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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 buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact out-of-bounds read jasper

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1905201 - CVE-2020-27828 jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c

1921325 - CVE-2021-3272 jasper: Heap-based buffer over-read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c

1921426 - CVE-2021-26926 jasper: Out of bounds read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c

1921428 - CVE-2021-26927 jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c

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