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.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8157 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| 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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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| RHEV Manager 3 (spice-client-msi) | RHSA-2015:0698 | 2015-03-18 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (jasper) | RHSA-2015:0074 | 2015-01-22 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (jasper) | RHSA-2015:0074 | 2015-01-22 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | netpbm | Will not fix |
| RHEV Manager 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Affected |
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