USN-2434-1: JasPer vulnerability

8 December 2014

JasPer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • jasper - Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files

Details

Jose Duart 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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

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

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