Memory leak in JasPer - CVE-2016-2116

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Memory leak in JasPer - CVE-2016-2116

Published: April 13, 2016 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33253
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2116
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the jas_iccprof_createfrombuf function in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image file. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

JasPer
jasper (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2016-2116

Update to version 1.900.2.

JasPer - update to 1.900.2
jasper (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.900.1-r12, 1.900.1-r13

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