DSA-3089-1 jasper -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3089-1 jasper -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Dec 2014

Affected Packages:

jasper

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 772036.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9029.

More information:

Jose Duart of the Google Security Team discovered heap-based buffer overflow flaws in JasPer, a library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files, which could lead to denial of service (application crash) or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.900.1-13+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your jasper packages.