CVE-2018-9252 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-9252?

CVE-2018-9252 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Jasper Project Jasper, published on 4 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

JasPer 2.0.14 allows denial of service via a reachable assertion in the function jpc_abstorelstepsize in libjasper/jpc/jpc_enc.c.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-9252?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Jasper Project Jasper.

How do I fix CVE-2018-9252?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-9252 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-9252 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Jasper Project Jasper

• CVE-2008-3522 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-3520 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2015-8751 Integer overflow in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2023-51257 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-8886 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.8

All Jasper Project Jasper vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5x2c-7cwv-6fv6, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9252.