CVE-2008-3521 Information

Description

Race condition in the jas_stream_tmpfile function in libjasper/base/jas_stream.c in JasPer 1.900.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (program exit) by creating the appropriate tmp.XXXXXXXXXX temporary file which causes Jasper to exit. NOTE: this was originally reported as a symlink issue but this was incorrect. NOTE: some vendors dispute the severity of this issue but it satisfies CVE’s requirements for inclusion.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=163282&action=view http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222819 http://secunia.com/advisories/34391 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:142 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:164 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31470 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-742-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3521 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45622