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USN-3295-1: JasPer vulnerabilities

18 May 2017

Several security issues were fixed in JasPer.

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Releases

Packages

  • jasper - Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files

Details

It was discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user or automated system using JasPer were
tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit
this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.