Debian Security Advisory
DLA-138-1 jasper -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 28 Jan 2015
- Affected Packages:
- jasper
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 775970.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8157, CVE-2014-8158. - More information:
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An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2014-8157), and an unrestricted stack memory use flaw (CVE-2014-8158) were found 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+squeeze4