DSA-3785-1 jasper -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3785-1 jasper -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Feb 2017

Affected Packages:

jasper

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1867, CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-8691, CVE-2016-8692, CVE-2016-8693, CVE-2016-8882, CVE-2016-9560.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the JasPer library for processing JPEG-2000 images, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is processed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your jasper packages.