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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : jasper (SUSE-SU-2025:3947-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 274489

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:3947-1 advisory.

 - Update to 4.2.8:

 - CVE-2025-8837: Fixed a bug in the JPC decoder that could cause bad memory accesses if the debug level is set sufficiently high (bsc#1247901).
 - CVE-2025-8836: Added some missing range checking on several coding parameters in the JPC encoder (bsc#1247902).
 - CVE-2025-8835: Added a check for a missing color component in the jas_image_chclrspc function (bsc#1247904).
 - CVE-2023-51257: Fixed invalid memory write bug (bsc#1218802).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected jasper, libjasper-devel, libjasper7 and / or libjasper7-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1218802

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247901

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247902

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247904

http://www.nessus.org/u?3583ae63

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-51257

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8835

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8836

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8837

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 274489

File Name: suse_SU-2025-3947-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2025

Updated: 11/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8837

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjasper-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjasper7, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-51257, CVE-2025-8835, CVE-2025-8836, CVE-2025-8837

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:3947-1