USN-2483-1: JasPer vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• jasper - Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files

Details

Jose Duart discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled ICC color profiles in
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-8137)

Jose Duart discovered that JasPer incorrectly decoded certain malformed
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-8138)

It was discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-8157)

It was discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled memory when processing
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-8158)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-debian1-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-14ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 12.04

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-13ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-8137
• CVE-2014-8138
• CVE-2014-8157
• CVE-2014-8158

Related notices

• USN-2483-2: ghostscript, libgs8