CVE-2017-13749 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_pi_nextrpcl() in jpc/jpc_t2cod.c in JasPer 2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function jpc_pi_nextrpcl() in jpc/jpc_t2cod.c in JasPer 2.0.12 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-08-29 06:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Jasper Project Jasper 2.0.12

2.0.12

References

100514

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485285

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

GLSA-201908-03

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