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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-121-1 jasper -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

22 Dec 2014

Affected Packages:

jasper

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8137, CVE-2014-8138.

More information:

Jose Duart of the Google Security Team discovered a double free flaw (CVE-2014-8137) and a heap-based buffer overflow flaw (CVE-2014-8138) in JasPer, a library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in jasper version 1.900.1-7+squeeze3