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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-4688-1 Severe: JasPer DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Essential updates for JasPer addressed several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 16.04, aiming to mitigate risks of attacks and safeguard data integrity.
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 certain files.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash.

(CVE-2018-18873)

It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain files.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2018-19542)

It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain JPC encoders.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2020-27828)

It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain images.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information

or cause a crash.

(CVE-2017-9782)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical code execution Ubuntu attack system update information exposure ubuntu data exposure 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-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.3

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4688-1

CVE-2017-9782, CVE-2018-18873, CVE-2018-19542, CVE-2020-27828

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January 11, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical code execution Ubuntu attack system update information exposure ubuntu data exposure jasper

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.3

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