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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : jasper (SUSE-SU-2022:3673-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166360

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3673-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2022-2963: Fixed memory leaks in function cmdopts_parse (bsc#1202642).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected jasper, libjasper-devel, libjasper4 and / or libjasper4-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202642

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2963

http://www.nessus.org/u?0a572044

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166360

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3673-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2963

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjasper4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2963

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3673-1