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CVE-2018-9154 json

There is a reachable abort in the function jpc_dec_process_sot in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c of JasPer 2.0.14 that will lead to a remote denia…

published 2018-05-04 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-20753

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a reachable abort in the function jpc_dec_process_sot in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c of JasPer 2.0.14 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack by triggering an unexpected jas_alloc2 return value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-13745.

Patch / fix

  • jasper SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.900.14-195.22.1
  • jasper SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 +2 more 2.0.14-3.11.8

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:2690-1SUSE-SU-2020:1420-2SUSE-SU-2020:1420-1

  • jasper openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.33-1.2
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.0.14-lp151.4.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10869-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0734-1

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-2018-9154 updated cvss 3.3

jasper: reachable abort in jpc_dec_process_sot()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jasper, jasper-libs
    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

Exploit prediction

3.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • drive.google.com https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1YuxdfbZrw79kfzoQz0PpxIutZ7pkf_kW referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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