CVE-2018-19542

Description

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function jp2_decode in libjasper/jp2/jp2_dec.c, leading to a denial of service.

CVSS breakdown

Affected products

• Canonical / Ubuntu Linux16.04 – 16.04
• Debian / debian_linux8.0 – 8.0
• JasPer Project / jasper2.0.14 – 2.0.14
• openSUSE / Leap15.0 – 15.0
• SUSE / linux_enterprise_desktop12 – 12
• SUSE / linux_enterprise_desktop12 – 12
• SUSE / linux_enterprise_server11 – 11
• SUSE / linux_enterprise_server11 – 11
• SUSE / linux_enterprise_server12 – 12
• SUSE / linux_enterprise_server12 – 12

References

• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00003.html
• MISChttps://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/182
• MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00004.html
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html