CVE-2018-19543: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a heap-based buffer over-read of size 8 in the function jp2_decode in libjasper/jp2/jp2_dec.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 2018-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.