Bug 1114495 – VUL-1: CVE-2018-18873: ghostscript-library: A NULL pointer dereference in the function ras_putdatastd in ras/ras_enc.c.

Bug 1114495 - (CVE-2018-18873) VUL-1: CVE-2018-18873: ghostscript-library: A NULL pointer dereference in the function ras_putdatastd in ras/ras_enc.c.

(CVE-2018-18873)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2018-18873: ghostscript-library: A NULL pointer dereference in the...

Status:	IN_PROGRESS

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Minor
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/218463/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3:SUSE:CVE-2018-18873:3.3:(AV:L/...
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Reported:	2018-11-02 14:11 UTC by Robert Frohl
Modified:	2020-10-21 09:21 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Frohl 2018-11-02 14:11:05 UTC

CVE-2018-18873

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a NULL pointer dereference in
the function ras_putdatastd in ras/ras_enc.c.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-18873
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-18873.html
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-18873/
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/184

Comment 1 Robert Frohl 2018-11-02 14:15:10 UTC

jasper version of this vulnerability: bnc#1114498

Comment 2 Robert Frohl 2018-11-02 14:17:49 UTC

Hi Johannes,
my investigation suggests that the following codestream ships with an embedded version of jasper:
- SUSE:SLE-11-SP1:Update/ghostscript-library

SUSE:SLE-10-SP3:Update  is not affected.