High severity · published Aug 29, 2017
CVE-2017-13748
There are lots of memory leaks in JasPer 2.0.12, triggered in the function jas_strdup() in base/jas_string.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack
7.5
CVSS
4.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
There are lots of memory leaks in JasPer 2.0.12, triggered in the function jas_strdup() in base/jas_string.c, that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.7% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
JA
Jasper · Jasper Project
2.0.12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13748
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13748
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100514
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485287
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00023.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4ALB4SXHURLVWKAOKYRNJXPABW3M22M/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPOVZTSIQPW2H4AFLMI3LHJEZGBVEQET/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-03
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