CVE-2018-9154 — There is a reachable abort in the function jpc_dec_process_sot in libjasper/jpc/

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-05-04T21:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:17:51.411Z

09References

• drive.google.com — https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1YuxdfbZrw79kfzoQz0PpxIutZ7pkf_kW
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-03
• www.oracle.com — https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html