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OESA-2026-4179 (CVE-2025-8837)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-09-30 13:47 – Updated: 2026-09-30 13:47 – Source website

Summary

jasper security update

Details

The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard.

Security Fix(es):

A vulnerability was identified in JasPer up to 4.2.5. This affects the function jpc_dec_dump of the file src/libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c of the component JPEG2000 File Handler. The manipulation leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named 8308060d3fbc1da10353ac8a95c8ea60eba9c25a. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.(CVE-2025-8837)

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8837	ADVISORY

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "jasper-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "jasper-debuginfo-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "jasper-debugsource-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "jasper-devel-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "jasper-help-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "jasper-utils-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "jasper-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.src.rpm"
        ],
        "x86_64": [
          "jasper-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm",
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          "jasper-debugsource-4.1.0-5.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm",
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        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP1",
        "name": "jasper",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/jasper\u0026distro=openEuler-24.03-LTS-SP1"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
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            }
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        }
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  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nA vulnerability was identified in JasPer up to 4.2.5. This affects the function jpc_dec_dump of the file src/libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c of the component JPEG2000 File Handler. The manipulation leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named 8308060d3fbc1da10353ac8a95c8ea60eba9c25a. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.(CVE-2025-8837)",
  "id": "OESA-2026-4179",
  "modified": "2026-09-30T13:47:21Z",
  "published": "2026-09-30T13:47:21Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2026-4179"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8837"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "jasper security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-8837"
  ]
}

CVE-2025-8837 (GCVE-0-2025-8837)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-11 08:02 – Updated: 2025-08-11 19:56

Title

JasPer JPEG2000 File jpc_dec.c jpc_dec_dump use after free

Summary

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-11 19:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free
CWE-119 - Memory Corruption

Assigner

VulDB mitre root Scorecard

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.319371	vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319371	signaturepermissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630487	third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630488	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/issues/402	issue-tracking
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ic_DDOlH7mMT7Ib…	exploit
https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/commit/…	patch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	JasPer	Affected: 4.2.0 Affected: 4.2.1 Affected: 4.2.2 Affected: 4.2.3 Affected: 4.2.4 Affected: 4.2.5

Credits

rootsec (VulDB User)

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