Important Security Update for Buffer Overflow in Jasper for SL6/SL7

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:21:47 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: jasper on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: jasper security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:0074-1
Issue Date: 2015-01-22
CVE Numbers: CVE-2014-8157
 CVE-2014-8158
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An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in
the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file
could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8157)

An unrestricted stack memory use flaw was found in the way JasPer decoded
JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application
using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-8158)

All applications using the JasPer libraries must be restarted for the
update to take effect.
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SL6
 x86_64
 jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.el6_6.3.i686.rpm
SL7
 x86_64
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.i686.rpm
 jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.x86_64.rpm
 jasper-utils-1.900.1-26.el7_0.3.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team