CVE-2018-19542: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% 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 jp2_decode in libjasper/jp2/jp2_dec.c, leading to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Jasper Project Jasper: version 2.0.14 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 12 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only; version 12 only

Published 2018-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.