SciLinux: CVE-2011-4516 Important Jasper Buffer Overflow Advisory

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:29:38 -0600
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: jasper on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: jasper security update
Issue Date: 2011-12-09
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-4516

JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression
standard.

Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded
JPEG 2000 compressed image files. An attacker could create a malicious JPEG
2000 compressed image file that, when opened, would cause applications that
use JasPer (such as Nautilus) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct these issues. All applications using the JasPer
libraries (such as Nautilus) must be restarted for the update to take
effect.

SL6:
 i386
 jasper-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-utils-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 jasper-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-utils-1.900.1-15.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team