CVE-2016-8884

MEDIUM

JasPer 1.900.5 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The bmp_getdata function in libjasper/bmp/bmp_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by calling the imginfo command with a crafted BMP image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8690.

References (9)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/1

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/9

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93834

[Vendor Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208

[Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/18/jasper-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-bmp_getdata-bmp_dec-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2016-8690/

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385499

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/5d66894d2313e3f3469f19066e149e08ff076698

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22FCKKHQCQ3S6TZY5G44EFDTMWOJXJRD/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EGI2FZQLOTSZI3VA4ECJERI74SMNQDL4/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0041

EPSS Percentile 60.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Affected Products (4)

jasper_project/jasper

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Mar 28, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026