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high 8.8

CVE-2018-19540 json

An issue was discovered in JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17, 1.900.1…

published 2018-11-26 7 y ago modified 2026-10-15 24 d ago also EUVD-2018-11229

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17, 1.900.18, 1.900.19, 1.900.20, 1.900.21, 1.900.22, 1.900.23, 1.900.24, 1.900.25, 1.900.26, 1.900.27, 1.900.28, 1.900.29, 1.900.30, 1.900.31, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16. There is a heap-based buffer overflow of size 1 in the function jas_icctxtdesc_input in libjasper/base/jas_icc.c.

Patch / fix

  • jasper SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP4 +1 more 1.900.14-195.15.1
  • jasper SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 +1 more 2.0.14-3.8.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2513-1SUSE-SU-2019:2512-1

  • jasper openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.33-1.2
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.0.14-lp151.4.3.1
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.0 2.0.14-lp150.2.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10869-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2282-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2279-1

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-2018-19540 updated cvss 3.3

jasper: heap-based buffer overflow of size 1 in jas_icctxtdesc_input in libjasper/base/jas_icc.c

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
24 d ago

Exploit prediction

2.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/182 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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