RHSA-2021:4235 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard.

Security Fix(es):

• jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c (CVE-2020-27828)
• jasper: Heap-based buffer over-read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-3272)
• jasper: Out of bounds read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26926)
• jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c (CVE-2021-26927)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1905201 - CVE-2020-27828 jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() in jpc_enc.c
• BZ - 1921325 - CVE-2021-3272 jasper: Heap-based buffer over-read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c
• BZ - 1921426 - CVE-2021-26926 jasper: Out of bounds read in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c
• BZ - 1921428 - CVE-2021-26927 jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_decode() in jp2_dec.c

CVEs

• CVE-2020-27828
• CVE-2021-3272
• CVE-2021-26926
• CVE-2021-26927

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/