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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2017-5498 json

libjasper/include/jasper/jas_math.h in JasPer 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving l…

published 2017-03-01 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-14602

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libjasper/include/jasper/jas_math.h in JasPer 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving left shift of a negative value.

Patch / fix

  • jasper SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 1.900.14-194.1
  • jasper SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.900.14-134.32.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0953-1SUSE-SU-2017:0946-1

  • jasper openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.33-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10869-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-5498 updated cvss 2.5

jasper: Left shift of negative value in jas_fast32_asl() in jas_math.h

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • blogs.gentoo.org https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/16/jasper-multiple-crashes-with-ubsan/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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