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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-3295-1 Critical: JasPer Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2017
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Upgrade your Ubuntu installations to resolve various JasPer vulnerabilities that could lead to possible code execution on impacted versions.
Several security issues were fixed in JasPer.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in JasPer.

Software Description:

- jasper: Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files

Details:

It was discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed

JPEG-2000 image files. If a user or automated system using JasPer were

tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit

this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the

privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution ubuntu update instruction jasper

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libjasper1                      1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libjasper1                      1.900.1-14ubuntu3.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3295-1

CVE-2016-10249, CVE-2016-10251, CVE-2016-1867, CVE-2016-2089,

CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-8691, CVE-2016-8692, CVE-2016-8693,

CVE-2016-8882, CVE-2016-9560, CVE-2016-9591

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May 18, 2017

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution ubuntu update instruction jasper

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-14ubuntu3.4

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