Issued:

2014-12-18

Updated:

2014-12-18

RHSA-2014:2021 - Important: jasper security update

Synopsis

Important: jasper security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated jasper packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard.

Multiple off-by-one flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-9029)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8138)

A double free flaw was found in the way JasPer parsed ICC color profiles in JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8137)

Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting these issues. oCERT acknowledges Jose Duart of the Google Security Team as the original reporter.

All JasPer users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All applications using the JasPer libraries must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.src.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.src.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-libs-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.x86_64.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.ppc64.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-26.el7_0.2.s390x.rpm
• jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.i686.rpm
• jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.el6_6.2.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1167537
• This content is not included.BZ - 1173157
• This content is not included.BZ - 1173162

CVEs

• CVE-2014-8138
• CVE-2014-9029
• CVE-2014-8137

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

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