Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : JasPer vulnerabilities (USN-3693-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110765

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

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.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libjasper1 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110765

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3693-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/28/2018

Updated: 5/11/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjasper1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5203, CVE-2015-5221, CVE-2016-10248, CVE-2016-10250, CVE-2016-8883, CVE-2016-8887, CVE-2016-9262, CVE-2016-9387, CVE-2016-9388, CVE-2016-9389, CVE-2016-9390, CVE-2016-9391, CVE-2016-9392, CVE-2016-9393, CVE-2016-9394, CVE-2016-9396, CVE-2016-9600, CVE-2017-1000050, CVE-2017-6850

USN: 3693-1