Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1628-2 jasper -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 13 Apr 2019
- Affected Packages:
- jasper
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- No other external database security references currently available.
- More information:
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The update of jasper issued as DLA-1628-1 caused a regression due to the fix for CVE-2018-19542, a NULL pointer dereference in the function jp2_decode, which could lead to a denial-of-service. In some cases not only invalid jp2 files but also valid jp2 files were rejected.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u6.We recommend that you upgrade your jasper packages.
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