RHSA-2018:3253 — Security Advisory

An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• jasper: reachable assertion in JPC_NOMINALGAIN() (CVE-2016-9396)

• jasper: NULL pointer exception in jp2_encode() (CVE-2017-1000050)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.