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Ubuntu: USN-4688-1 (CVE-2020-27828): JasPer vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 11, 2020
Added
Jan 12, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

There's a flaw in jasper's jpc encoder in versions prior to 2.0.23. Crafted input provided to jasper by an attacker could cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds write. This could potentially affect data confidentiality, integrity, or application availability.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libjasper1
Title
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