metadata/glsa/glsa-201503-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201503-01">
  <title>JasPer: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in JasPer, the worst of
    which could could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">jasper</product>
  <announced>March 06, 2015</announced>
  <revised>March 06, 2015: 1</revised>
  <bug>531688</bug>
  <bug>533744</bug>
  <bug>537530</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/jasper" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.900.1-r9</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.900.1-r9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>JasPer is a software-based implementation of the codec specified in the
      JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in JasPer. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file
      using JasPer, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All jasper users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/jasper-1.900.1-r9"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8137">CVE-2014-8137</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8138">CVE-2014-8138</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8157">CVE-2014-8157</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8158">CVE-2014-8158</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9029">CVE-2014-9029</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:22:20 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:11:02 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>