Use After Free Affecting jasper package, versions <1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (43rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-JASPER-343087
- published 9 Mar 2018
- disclosed 9 Mar 2018
Introduced: 9 Mar 2018
CVE-2016-9591 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
jasper
to version 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jasper
package and not the jasper
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
JasPer before version 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a use-after-free in the way it decodes certain JPEG 2000 image files resulting in a crash on the application using JasPer.
References
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3827
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9591
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-07
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406405
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94952
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9591