CentOS 7 : jasper (CESA-2018:3253)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119002

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* jasper: reachable assertion in JPC_NOMINALGAIN() (CVE-2016-9396)

* jasper: NULL pointer exception in jp2_encode() (CVE-2017-1000050)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected jasper packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119002

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-3253.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2018

Updated: 4/8/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9396

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jasper-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9396, CVE-2017-1000050

RHSA: 2018:3253

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