Bug 1488964 – CVE-2017-13751 jasper: reachable assertion in calcstepsizes()

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Bug 1488964 - (CVE-2017-13751) CVE-2017-13751 jasper: reachable assertion in calcstepsizes()

Summary:	CVE-2017-13751 jasper: reachable assertion in calcstepsizes()

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-13751

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1434464 1434465 1485283 1434467
Blocks:	1449402
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Reported:	2017-09-06 10:00 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-07-18 11:30 EDT (History)
CC List:	17 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 10:00:25 EDT

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function calcstepsizes() in jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 2.0.12 that will lead to a denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485283

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 10:07:08 EDT

Created jasper tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1434464]


Created mingw-jasper tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1434465]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1434467]

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2017-12-05 08:26:58 EST

This CVE is for the same reachable assertion as CVE-2016-9399 (bug 1396981).  Upstream bug report is:

https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/83

The issue remains unfixed in the current upstream version 2.0.14.

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