CVE-2014-8138

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8138  

A heap-based buffer overflow 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.

A heap-based buffer overflow 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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8138 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (jasper) RHSA-2014:2021 2014-12-18
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (rhev-hypervisor7) RHSA-2015:1713 2015-09-03
RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 RHSA-2015:1713 2015-09-03
RHEV Manager 3 (spice-client-msi) RHSA-2015:0698 2015-03-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (jasper) RHSA-2014:2021 2014-12-18

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3.5.z mingw-virt-viewer Affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting these issues. oCERT acknowledges Jose Duart of the Google Security Team as the original reporter.

External References