#2015-001 JasPer input sanitization errors
Description:
The JasPer project is an open source implementation for the JPEG-2000 codec.
The library is affected by an off-by-one error in a buffer boundary check in
jpc_dec_process_sot(), leading to a heap based buffer overflow, as well as
multiple unrestricted stack memory use issues in jpc_qmfb.c, leading to stack
overflow.
A specially crafted JPEG-2000 file can be used to trigger the vulnerabilities.
Affected version:
JasPer <= 1.900.1
Fixed version:
JasPer, N/A
Credit: vulnerability report received from <pyddeh@xxxxxxxxx>.
CVE: CVE-2014-8157 (off-by-one heap buffer overflow),
CVE-2014-8158 (stack overflow)
Timeline:
2015-01-06: vulnerability report received
2015-01-06: contacted affected vendors, assigned CVEs
2015-01-21: advisory release
References:
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper
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