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Bug 1396962 - (CVE-2016-9388) CVE-2016-9388 jasper: reachable assertions in RAS encoder/decoder
CVE-2016-9388 jasper: reachable assertions in RAS encoder/decoder
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20161024,reported=2...
: Reopened, Security
Depends On: 1396986 1396987 1396988 1396989 1439171 1439172 1439173 1439174
Blocks: 1314477
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Reported: 2016-11-21 04:50 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2017-05-09 17:44 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: jasper 1.900.14
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Last Closed: 2017-05-09 17:44:09 EDT
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1208 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: jasper security update 2017-05-09 17:13:57 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 04:50:27 EST
Improper error handling in RAS encoder/decoder with assertion test were found.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/411a4068f8c464e883358bf403a3e25158863823

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/441
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 05:31:38 EST
Created mingw-jasper tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1396987]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1396989]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 05:31:59 EST
Created jasper tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1396986]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1396988]
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-03-29 15:51:17 EDT
Original reporter's advisory:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/16/jasper-multiple-assertion-failure/

Relevant information from the advisory:

Affected version: 1.900.13

Output/failure:
/tmp/portage/media-libs/jasper-1.900.13/work/jasper-1.900.13/src/libjasper/ras/ras_dec.c:330: int ras_getcmap(jas_stream_t *, ras_hdr_t *, ras_cmap_t *): Assertion `numcolors <= 256' failed.

Commit fix:
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/411a4068f8c464e883358bf403a3e25158863823

Fixed version: 1.900.14

Testcase:
https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00005-jasper-assert-ras_getcmap

CVE: CVE-2016-9388


Upstream bug report:

https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/51
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2017-03-29 15:56:18 EDT
Impact of this problem is limited to unexpected application termination.  There is currently no plan to backport the fix to already released Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2017-03-31 16:41:34 EDT
Re-considering inclusion for easier future testing.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-09 13:18:57 EDT
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1208 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208

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