CVE-2018-19540

An issue was discovered in JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17, 1.900.18, 1.900.19, 1.900.20, 1.900.21, 1.900.22, 1.900.23, 1.900.24, 1.900.25, 1.900.26, 1.900.27, 1.900.28, 1.900.29, 1.900.30, 1.900.31, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16. There is a heap-based buffer overflow of size 1 in the function jas_icctxtdesc_input in libjasper/base/jas_icc.c.

CVSS 3.0

8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-787

Published

2018-11-26

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• debian:debian_linux
• jasper_project:jasper
• suse:linux_enterprise_desktop
• suse:linux_enterprise_server

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00023.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00025.html
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/182
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00003.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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