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Ubuntu: USN-3693-1 (CVE-2015-5221): JasPer vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3693-1 (CVE-2015-5221): JasPer vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/03/2018
Modified
07/03/2018

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mif_process_cmpt function in libjasper/mif/mif_cod.c in the JasPer JPEG-2000 library before 1.900.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted JPEG 2000 image file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjasper1

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