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openSUSE 16 Security Update : jasper (openSUSE-SU-2026:20138-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 297772

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20138-1 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).

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 and / or libjasper7 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247901

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247902

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247904

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: 297772

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20138-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 2/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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:opensuse:libjasper-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libjasper7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:jasper

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: 1/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2025

Reference Information

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