CVE-2022-40755 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2022-40755?

CVE-2022-40755 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Jasper Project Jasper, published on 16 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

JasPer 3.0.6 allows denial of service via a reachable assertion in the function inttobits in libjasper/base/jas_image.c.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40755?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Jasper Project Jasper.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40755?

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-2022-40755 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40755 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-7p4v-jrq5-5jrj, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40755, openSUSE-SU-2024:12486-1.