GLSA-201908-03 : JasPer: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 127561

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201908-03 (JasPer: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in JasPer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact :

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

JasPer is no longer maintained upstream and contains many vulnerabilities which remain unaddressed. Gentoo users are advised to unmerge this package.
# emerge --unmerge media-libs/jasper

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-03

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127561

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201908-03.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 1/6/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:jasper, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000050, CVE-2017-13745, CVE-2017-13746, CVE-2017-13747, CVE-2017-13748, CVE-2017-13749, CVE-2017-13750, CVE-2017-13751, CVE-2017-13752, CVE-2017-13753, CVE-2017-14132, CVE-2017-14229, CVE-2017-5503, CVE-2017-5504, CVE-2017-5505, CVE-2017-6851, CVE-2017-6852, CVE-2017-9782, CVE-2018-18873, CVE-2018-20584, CVE-2018-9055, CVE-2018-9154

GLSA: 201908-03