ALAS-2015-479

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8157   CVE-2014-8158  

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8157) An unrestricted stack memory use flaw was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8158)

ALAS-2015-479


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-479
Advisory Release Date: 2015-02-11 19:37 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-02-11 19:49 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8157)

An unrestricted stack memory use flaw was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-8158)


Affected Packages:

jasper


Issue Correction:
Run yum update jasper to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.i686
    jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.i686
    jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.i686
    jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.i686
    jasper-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.i686

src:
    jasper-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    jasper-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    jasper-debuginfo-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    jasper-devel-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    jasper-utils-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.x86_64
    jasper-libs-1.900.1-16.9.amzn1.x86_64