CVE-2016-8887

MEDIUM

JasPer <1.900.10 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The jp2_colr_destroy function in libjasper/jp2/jp2_cod.c in JasPer before 1.900.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).

References (9)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/3

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/6

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93835

[Third Party Advisory] https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/18/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_colr_destroy-jp2_cod-c

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388828

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/e24bdc716c3327b067c551bc6cfb97fd2370358d

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Vendor Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/

[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 0.0022

EPSS Percentile 44.3%

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 < 1.900.9

fedoraproject/fedora

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Mar 23, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026