CVE-2018-18873: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
  • Jasper Project Jasper: version 2.0.14 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 12 only
  • Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only; version 12 only

Published 2018-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.