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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2018-19139 json

An issue has been found in JasPer 2.0.14.

published 2018-11-09 7 y ago modified 2026-10-15 24 d ago also EUVD-2018-10851

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue has been found in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a memory leak in jas_malloc.c when called from jpc_unk_getparms in jpc_cs.c.

Patch / fix

  • jasper SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.900.14-195.22.1
  • jasper SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 +2 more 2.0.14-3.16.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:2690-1SUSE-SU-2020:2689-1

  • jasper openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.33-1.2
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.0.14-lp152.7.3.1
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.0.14-lp151.4.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10869-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1523-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1517-1

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-2018-19139 updated cvss 3.3

jasper: memory leak of data allocated in jpc_unk_getparms() after abort in jpc_dec_process_sot()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jasper, jasper-libs, mingw-jasper, mingw32-jasper, mingw64-jasper
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
24 d ago

Exploit prediction

1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/188 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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