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CVE-2014-8157

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8157 describes an off-by-one error in the JasPer library (versions 1.900.1 and earlier), specifically within the jpc_dec_process_sot function, affecting products like Debian, OpenSUSE, and Red Hat. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow by providing a specially crafted JPEG 2000 image. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), successful exploitation could lead to a denial of service (crash) or potentially arbitrary code execution, requiring no authentication or complex attack conditions. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1686 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: jasper-0:1.900.1-16.el6_6.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: jasper-0:1.900.1-26.el7_0.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV Manager version 3.5Fixed in: spice-client-msi-0:3.5-3
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: netpbm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-8157Important

jasper: dec->numtiles off-by-one check in jpc_dec_process_sot() (oCERT-2015-001)

Jan 21, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0038.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00014.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0074.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0698.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/62583
secunia.com / advisories/62615
secunia.com / advisories/62619
secunia.com / advisories/62765
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3138
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
ocert.org / advisories/ocert-2015-001.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
securityfocus.com / bid/72296
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2483-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2483-2