CVE-2018-19542
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
High risk80th percentile - higher than 80% of all known CVEs
Summary
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.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can crash an application processing JP2 files with JasPer, causing service unavailability.
Recommendation
Update JasPer to a version newer than 2.0.14 that contains the fix for this bug.
Other vulnerabilities in JasPer
See all- CVE-2017-14229High
There is an infinite loop in the jpc_dec_tileinit function in jpc/jpc_dec.c of Jasper 2.0.13, which may lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13752High
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dequantize() in JasPer 2.0.12 that can lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13751High
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function calcstepsizes() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12 that can lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13750High
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_siz() in JasPer 2.0.12 that may lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13749High
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_pi_nextrpcl() in jpc/jpc_t2cod.c in JasPer 2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13748High
There are lots of memory leaks in JasPer 2.0.12, triggered in the function jas_strdup() in base/jas_string.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13747High
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_floorlog2() in JasPer 2.0.12 that can lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-13746High
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_dec_process_siz() in JasPer 2.0.12 that can lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-1000050High
JasPer 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check to see if the image contained at least one component resulting in a denial-of-service.
- CVE-2016-9399High
The calcstepsizes function in jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS